Kennedy 1/2 1964D

To me, when there is a portrait, that's the obverse, even if the date is on the other side. But when I have coins with a "coin turn" encapsulated, I ALWAYS want the date side right side up with the label at the top, which I know drives the TPGS's crazy when it comes to recent cents and dollars. Especially those post-2008 dollars. Getting them to mount them edge-up is a CHORE!

 

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Are you trying to use reverse psychology on us?

 

Commercial cardboard holder was in plastic box (broken over years) wrapped in saran wrap now and plastic bag.

 

Taken with phone camera, produced reverse on scan on printer not so shaky. If the ring on both Obverse and reverse( Less)is just aging then I will stop wondering (coin was in collection of parents and was probably fairly new when they got it, died in '68&'69). Sorry didn.t realize I had put obverse in original post. Is saran wrap bad I have been trying to locate koin?? holders but have to buy a 100 at a time. Have several old circulated old coins would like to put them in for books I want to finish. Sorry for length but think I'll get off site because I just had that question and some post not needed.

 

Wish there was a thumbs down I'd post it.

 

Don't understand this narrative, sorry.

 

Reverse was scanned, obverse was phone photo.

 

Maybe that was why my confusion on primary post.

 

Look to me like the Saran Wrap did you some favors. That kind of toning is highly fashionable right now.

 

In obverse photo the ring looks like a dirty ring but is more iridescent in true observation.

 

The date on 2009 to date dollar coins is always on the EDGE, not on either flat side. The same was true of the whole Presidential dollar series.

 

Even BETTER! Don't change a thing!

 

Wish I could have something to say to you but.

 

Saran wrap was just applied as plastic box over years had broken.

 

All the Presidential dollars have edge date but Kennedys I have from 1990-1999 are on obverse. What coins have edge date.

The toning in photo looks dirty but true observation is more iridescent.

 

The coin, which is not particularly rare, is a very nicely preserved example with desirable toning color on it. MANY of these are hoarded away in rolls, even all these years later. Yes, many were likely melted during the silver booms of 1979-80 and 2011, but many 1964-D coins are still out there. NOT all that many will show the toning yours does. In 1964 and 1965 (they continued to strike halves marked 1964 into 1965) over 165 million of these were struck. Any number that someone might quote as to how many are still around is an educated guess at best.

 

The so-called "golden" Presidential dollars that are quite a bit smaller than the half dollar, but a different color.

 

Did the plastic box also have a cardboard holder in it? I ask because I have a 1964 Philadelphia Kennedy half with similar toning that was in such a holder.