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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Caleb, post: 2147566, member: 32795&quot;]I have seen several Kennedy half dollars that look way worse then the 1964-D that you posted in this thread get graded by PCGS.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can scratch your head all day long trying to figure out what will pass at PCGS and what won’t.&nbsp; I think it all comes down to if the graders got lucky the night before or if their spouse had the convenient headache.&nbsp; I have had Kennedy half dollars come back as “Genuine” before and being unable to see what the problem was, cracked them out and re – submitted them after a few months had passed only to get the coins returned as anything from MS64 – MS66.</p><p><br /></p><p>One coin in particular that comes to mind, we bought a 1967 DDO-001 Kennedy half dollar from James Wiles several years ago.&nbsp; Dr. Wiles was upfront with us that this was a problem coin, improperly cleaned with server scratches.&nbsp; The 1967 Kennedy DDO-001 is a difficult variety to locate so knowing that this example was a “problem child”, we went ahead and bought the coin anyhow. </p><p><br /></p><p>When the coin arrived in the mail, both my dad and I examined it.&nbsp; Dr. Wiles left nothing out of his disclaimer when he said the coin was improperly cleaned.&nbsp; The coin looked like it had some “green growth” growing around GOD and the 9 6 of the date, and that someone used a dental probe to remove it.&nbsp; Knowing that this coin would body bag at best, I added it to a submission just to get it into a slab (figured that I could always send it back into PCGS for variety attribution if I couldn’t find a better example).&nbsp; I was shocked when we got it back from PCGS in a SP58 holder (the 1967 DDO-001 is a business strike variety not a SMS).&nbsp; The coin now sits in a PCGS AU58 holder attributed as the FS-103.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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