Well I was at my cousins summer house in Durand( by Rokckford) and I went to the bank. I asked for every half dollar they had. They had $530 in halves and I took them all. I went through them and only found 13 silvers(half of them were from the same roll) and none of them were from 1964. Now I have to go to my bank and cash in over 1000 Kennedies. The strange thing was, out of all the kennedies, half were bicentenials!
Not luck at all...REALITY. Finding silver in rolls is more luck than anything else. As for why all of those bicentennial halfs...well between the D and P mints that year, they made over 500 million of them! No other Kennedy after 1976 came close to these mintage numbers. Bad Luck?...more like the law of probability.
I've still never seen a bicentennial half dollar. Until I got into coin collecting, I didn't know they existed.
13 really isn't all that bad. Last weekend, I went through $1500 worth of halves. Out of those three boxes, I got a single 40% silver Kennedy. I'd call that bad luck. On another occasion I went through $130 worth and got 23 40%, 3 64 Kennedy's, and a BU Walking Liberty. Its all luck of the draw. But there is no greater feeling than getting those rolls loaded with silver.
Yeah, true. I'm set to pick up another 50 rolls tomorrow, but my luck over the past couple of weeks has been terrible. I searched 125 rolls last week. 25 were all 1998-Ps (again), 50 rolls had been picked over- lots of variety but no silver- and the remaining 50 rolls had 3 silvers. I know what a bummer it is to pick up all those halves, get your hopes up, and find such a small reward. But, as one poster mentioned, it is reality. Sooner or later everyone's turn comes.
That means that every man, woman, and child in America cannot have one P/D pair. Therefore, there are not enough to go around. Once you start sorting them into Gem Uncirculated and so forth, the population shrinks. I think that there is money to be made in Kennedy Halves, if you care about the coin enough to study it. It is under appreciated.
from 78-88 there are a number of tough kennedy's to find in BU. the 82P, 84P, 86P, and 86D are all extremely tough to find in MS64+ in circulation. I've sorted $15-20K in halves in the past year and those dates I hardly ever find in condition worth keeping! edited because I can't spell
Kennedy half dollars, even in average circulated grades, have increased in value a bit over 300% since 1999. Now don't go thinking you're rich - but it's true. You have to remember that we're talking about a coin that was worth $1 now being worth $3. Of course how long it stays that way is anybody's guess.
Darn. Now you're going to force me to start keeping every Kennedy I run across that looks like it might be EF-AU. I'm going to be burried in the things.
