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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1305458, member: 26030&quot;]I have been looking for a pretty toned Kennedy Half for months, with little luck. They are a tough find.&nbsp; Then I found and bought this attractively toned&nbsp; PCGS MS66 1968-D Kennedy Half Dollar and by doing so it pointed out to me a strange anomaly in the PCGS price chart.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]146663.vB[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The <span style="color: #0000cd">blue arrow and circle below</span> shows where a typical 1968-D PCGS graded MS66 falls in terms of price on the PCGS price chart ... $12.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now notice where a Kennedy minted one year before (1967) and one year after (1969-D) would fall at the same grade level (<span style="color: #b22222">the red circles</span>): $230 and $275 respectively.&nbsp; That&#039;s a 20x price difference or 2000%!!!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have been trying to figure out (to no avail) why the 1968-D is so common in MS66 and the 1969-D is so rare.&nbsp; They both had similar Business Strike mintages and similar Mint Set mintages.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting but if you drop back to the MS64 grade, all the prices compress to around the same value for almost all the years and mints ... around $9 to $11</p><p><br /></p><p>And it&#039;s also somewhat shocking how the prices for all the silver and silver clad Kennedy&#039;s (including this anomalous 1968-D) explode when moving up one level to MS67&nbsp; ... to close to $3000 (<span style="color: #008000">shown by the green circle in the chart below</span>)</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any theories on why the 1968-D Kennedy is so anomalously common in MS66 grade? While the 1969-D, as well as all other silver and silver clad Kennedys in MS66 grade appear to be (based on the list prices) 10 to 20 times rarer?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s pretty clear that the relative field populations are much more similar in the MS64, and crazy high priced MS67, grades -- since the prices in those grade levels are much more correlated and &quot;ballpark-y&quot; between all the years and mints.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess one potential money making idea would be to buy as many PCGS-graded MS66 1968-D Kennedy Halfs as you can find for $12 ... and submit them to PCGS for regrading, hoping that you might luck out and get one to upgrade 1 grade level to MS67 where you could achieve a 229x price gain (on paper at least) from $12 to $2,750.&nbsp; Whether or not you could actually find a buyer at that (what seems to me to be a) crazy high amount, is another whole story!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]146664.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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