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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Caleb, post: 1513367, member: 32795&quot;]<span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">Hi,</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">First, the three coins listed in your chart (65 - 67) are for business strikes not SMS.&nbsp; </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">Second, the SMS Kennedy half dollars for 1965 - 1967 are nothing like the 1998-S Mattie.&nbsp; I realize that PCGS tries to lump the 1965-67 SMS, 1998-S Mattie and the 2005 - 2010 Satin Finish coins all together but to me each class is different.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">The 1965 – 1967 SMS coins are neither proofs nor business strikes, just a hybrid. </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">The 1998-S Mattie, right now I’m sort of agreeing with NGC and considering them as a type III proof for that year (Type I would be the clad proof for that year and the Type II would be the silver proof).&nbsp; The 1998-S Mattie is similar to the Mattie Proofs the US Mint produced back in the early 1900’s. </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">The 2005 – 2010 satin finish coins were issued in the given years uncirculated sets.&nbsp; If they were SMS then the Mint would have labeled them as such and not just “Uncirculated Sets”.&nbsp; To me, I want both business strikes and satin finish examples in my basic set and I consider them Type I and Type II coins for these years.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">Now getting back to the 1998-S Mattie, is it under valued, probably yes.&nbsp; Population wise it is the “Key” coin for the basic series with a population of just over 64,000.&nbsp; But unless someone screwed up, the condition of all of the 1998-S Matties will me MS67 or better with probably over 1000 grading a perfect MS70 just at PCGS and NGC.&nbsp; A MS70 example from PCGS used to trade for around $1000 a number of years ago, now it trades for less then half.&nbsp; Will it ever get back to the $1000 range, maybe over time, but right now the supply of them with the limited demand is keeping the price down.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">The chart you showed of the business strike 1965 – 1967, you have to remember are low population coins in high grade. The 1966, PCGS only has graded four coins MS67 with just one better at MS68 (Conditional Rarity).</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">Caleb&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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