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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;giorgio11, post: 960286, member: 17094&quot;]<b>1966 non-SMS Kennedy, Conditional Rarity</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Another new photo:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]91176.vB[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left">During 1965 and 1966 the Mint was switching from proof sets to the&nbsp;&nbsp; Special Mint Sets and from the 90% silver Kennedys to the 40% silver.&nbsp; The 40% silver 1965-1967 Kennedys in the SMS sets were produced&nbsp; with a&nbsp; modicum of care (if not enough for some of us picky collectors), but the&nbsp; 1965-67 business strikes were being produced alongside the 1964&nbsp;&nbsp; Kennedy business strikes by the gazillions</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left">The quality suffered as a result.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left">While&nbsp; a lot of nice 1964 circulation strike&nbsp; Kennedys were saved, the 1965-67&nbsp; non-SMS coins were little saved at the time, and they are mighty tough&nbsp; issues at&nbsp; the Gem and higher levels, as the PCGS populations&nbsp; demonstrate.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>PCGS Population: </b>53 in 66, 4 finer, including one MS68 &quot;wonder coin&quot; that a friend of ours owns (7/2010).</p> </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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