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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;giorgio11, post: 962544, member: 17094&quot;]<b>My First Kennedy Half 1964-D MS65 PROOFLIKE NGC, Ex: Ken Bressett-Population 1</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1964-D Kennedy Half MS65 Prooflike NGC, Ex: Kenneth Bressett. The only certified Prooflike Mint State 90% silver Kennedy half. </b>This&nbsp; is one of our all-time favorite coins, and one of the very first that&nbsp; got us hooked on the fascinating, long, and complex Kennedy half series.&nbsp; This coin, whenever I sell my Registry Sets (years down the road,&nbsp; folks, I hope), will be accompanied by a signed letter dated January 16,&nbsp; 2007, from <i>Guide Book </i>editor Ken Bressett that tells its story:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Our&nbsp; mutual friend, Mark Borckardt, asked me to write to you with&nbsp; information about the unusual Prooflike 1964-D half dollar that you have&nbsp; purchased. Unfortunately, I do not know much more than what was&nbsp; published in the description in the recent Heritage auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I&nbsp; do remember clearly the day that it was discovered. The new Kennedy half&nbsp; dollars had just been released and one of the Whitman employees rushed&nbsp; over to a bank in Racine, WI and bought two rolls. He brought them back&nbsp; to the office where I was working at that time and let us all pick out a&nbsp; few of the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Neil Shafer and I noticed that a couple of&nbsp; the coins had a Prooflike surface. The piece that you recently bought&nbsp; was, as I recall, the nicest of all and fully PL on both sides. None of&nbsp; the others were nearly as nice, and most of the others in both rolls&nbsp; were simply normal Uncirculated coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;It is my understanding&nbsp; that this coin is the only one that has been graded Prooflike by any&nbsp; service, and I have not seen or heard of any others that look anything&nbsp; like this, except for its few mates in that unusual roll. I have no idea&nbsp; where any of the other coins ended up, or where they are today. I saved&nbsp; a couple of the nicer pieces, but I do not know if Neil saved any of&nbsp; his. At the time they were just nice examples of a new and very exciting&nbsp; coin design.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I hope you enjoy your new purchase, I think it is a very unusual piece.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;(Signed) Ken Bressett</p><p><br /></p><p><b>NGC Census: 1 in 65 Prooflike, 0 finer (6/2010). </b>No&nbsp; other 1964-Ds have ever been certified Prooflike at either service.&nbsp; NGC has certified one 1964 AU58 Prooflike. But this coin, with the&nbsp; unique Gem Prooflike designation and pedigreed to the day of release and&nbsp; Ken Bressett, is a monumentally important coin. Our favorite Kennedy&nbsp; half in our collection. Well, almost ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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