Hi All was looking at Kennedy half's 1974 P got at bank looking for silver ones ect and came across this one , what could of happen to this one? And could it be wroth anything other then 50 cents? Or because missing part of coin 25 cents:hammer: Thanks for any help on this. Carl
Looks like post mint damage or lamination issues. When coin struck is was all together - no image on remaining portion. Definitely worth more than a fifty cents. Hopefully a collector of these type errors will respond. But it is a quite interesting coin.
It could be faked but is probably a genuine delamination since a fake one would be too obvious to go to the effort. Unfortunately it's probably damaged by having the loose part removed significantly reducing its value.
I would need to see a better and more closeup view of the reverse in order to rule out the possibility that it is a damaged "Magician's coin". I can't tell if the copper portion is flat from the image or if it is sunken in. Thanks, Bill
