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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 993811, member: 112&quot;]No.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Easy, just looking at one of the SMS coins tells you what it is because the SMS coins have a special matte finish. There are entirely different than the business strike coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No. What is confusing you is the labeling on the slabs, and understandably so. Look at the slabs carefully, they are quite different from one another. One is a good bit older than the other one is. In that time period between when each slab was being used PCGS changed their labeling for those coins. It was confusing to people to label them SMS because people were confusing them with the coins issued in 1965, &#039;66 and &#039;67 - they were called SMS coins. So PCGS switched over to labeling them as SP to end that confusion.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, when 2005 came along PCGS had to come up with something to call the satin finish coins from the annual Mint Sets to distinguish them from all of the others. So they kept the SP designation for the matte finish &#039;98 Kennedy half and also put SMS on the label to set it apart from the satin finish coins also labeled SP.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes. One thing you can always rely on when the wording on the label is confusing - the PCGS coin number. Every single type of coin has it&#039;s own unique number. For the &#039;98 SMS Kennedy it is 6775. No other Kennedy half except those from the commemorative set in 1998 that had the Kennedy dollar and half dollar will have that number.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to see what I mean about the PCGS numbers just look at this page - <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/pcgsnolookup/Detail.aspx?c=125" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/pcgsnolookup/Detail.aspx?c=125" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/pcgsnolookup/Detail.aspx?c=125</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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