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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tim C, post: 2106115, member: 71569&quot;]Ethan,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The 1965 MS64 SMS Kennedy DDO/DDR you picked up, is it the DDO-004 / DDR-001 or FS-801?&nbsp; If so, nice pick up (PCGS has a habit of mis - atributing this variety), if it is the FS-801 you have a $250 coin there when residing attributed correctly in a PCGS slab.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Tim</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Morgandude11,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I’m not sure how old Ethan is, I didn’t take it from his post that he thinks he’s an expert – just caught up with the excitement of his recent pickups.&nbsp; To me, it is nice to see some excitement when a new coin or upgrade is found, especially for a Kennedy half dollar collector.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ethan will learn, like everyone else, that CAMEO and ULTRA (DEEP) CAMEO means different thing to different people even different third party grading companies.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I recently picked up a 1971-S Kennedy in a new ANACS holder graded 68DCAM and attributed as the FS-101.&nbsp; From the pictures in the auction I knew it was the DDO-017 instead of the DDO-004 (FS-101) and it would be an upgrade to the DDO-017 we already had.&nbsp; When we sent the coin into PCGS for grading, it came back PR68 only (not even CAMEO let alone DCAM like ANACS gave it).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Don’t ignore him; help him out if he asks.&nbsp; This hobby is supposed to be fun.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just my thoughts on the subject,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Tim</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>EDITED TO ADD:&nbsp; Ethan, I forgot to tell you that Morgandude11 wanted someone to tell you that he has a “high grade JFK collection”.&nbsp; I wouldn’t know what a “high grade JFK collection” was, or how it effected the status of someone’s expertise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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