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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Caleb, post: 1304251, member: 32795&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">There seems to be a lot of ‘mis-information’ about the 1998-S Kennedy in this thread.</span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">First, at PCGS “SP” stands for “Special Strike” not “specimen” on the labels.</span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Second, the mintage of the 1998-S Mattie is 62,350 +/-.</span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Third, to identify the 1998-S Mattie, people must first understand that the U.S. Mint made three types that year with the ‘S’ mintmark.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: #000000"><font size="3">1.</font> <font size="3">1998-S Clad Proof</font></span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: #000000"><font size="3">2.</font> <font size="3">1998-S Silver Proof</font></span></font></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">3.</font> <font size="3">1998-S Silver Mattie</font></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">If the coin you are looking at is dated 1998-S, silver and has no mirrors in the fields then strong chances are that it is the Silver Mattie.</span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">The two major online Registries (NGC and PCGS) treat the 1998-S Silver Mattie different. To understand these differences, you have to first classify what the coin is which is where the ‘rub’ comes into play between NGC and PCGS. The 1998-S Silver Mattie was only issued from the U.S. Mint in a two coin Collectors Set consisting of an uncirculated Robert Kennedy Commemorative Silver Dollar and a Mattie finish silver Kennedy Half Dollar (the U.S. Mint never clarified if the Mattie finish silver half dollar was a proof or business strike).</span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">NGC appears to be treating the 1998-S Mattie half dollar similar to the ‘Mattie Proofs” that the U.S. Mint made back in the early 1900’s by requiring the 1998-S Mattie in the basic proof set of the Registry.</span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">PCGS treats the 1998-S Mattie half dollar as a ‘business strike’ coin in their Registry but for some reason only as a variety.</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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