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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26788009, member: 101855&quot;]Maybe you know all of this, but this coin was part of set which the mint sold in 1964. It came in a tan envelope and looked like this. The issue price was only $2.10. The Accented Hair variety was among the first sets sold. The story was Jackie Kennedy didn&#039;t the think first version looked quite right, so designer Gilroy Roberts changed it slightly.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1709924[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1709925[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The outpouring for John Kenndy prompted many people to purchase these sets. The total mintage was 3,950,762 which is very high, even by today&#039;s standards. Lots of them were sold to non collectors who sometimes cut out the half dollar and spent the rest of the coins. The numismatists at the coin counter at Gimbels Department Store told me they spotted the other Proof coins in their cash register!</p><p><br /></p><p>The price of silver mostly drives the value of these sets today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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