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<p>[QUOTE="Caleb, post: 1938890, member: 32795"]If you are going to include “Fantasy Pieces” to determine the “King” of a given series, then the “Infamous 1964 SMS” would not even be in the running for the top seat of the Kennedy half dollar series.</p><p> </p><p>The top seat or “King” of the Kennedy half dollar would have to go to JA1964 – 1/P2080 which has just the portrait of Kennedy on both the Obverse and Reverse.</p><p> </p><p>[ATTACH=full]335782[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p>The runner – up to the “King” of the Kennedy half dollar series would be the forty percent silver Proof strikes without the “S” mintmark that were produced at the Philadelphia Mint on August 12, 1974, and put on display August 13, 1974, at the American Numismatic Association (ANA) summer convention in Florida. After the ANA convention, all but three of these forty percent silver Proof Kennedy half dollars without the “S” mint mark were melted with not even a copy kept for the National Numismatic Collection. The three surviving pieces were paired up with their counterparts (Bicentennial Ike dollar and Washington quarter dollar) and one set each presented to President Gerald Ford, Counselor to the President Anne Armstrong and the third set to John Warner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Caleb, post: 1938890, member: 32795"]If you are going to include “Fantasy Pieces” to determine the “King” of a given series, then the “Infamous 1964 SMS” would not even be in the running for the top seat of the Kennedy half dollar series. The top seat or “King” of the Kennedy half dollar would have to go to JA1964 – 1/P2080 which has just the portrait of Kennedy on both the Obverse and Reverse. [ATTACH=full]335782[/ATTACH] The runner – up to the “King” of the Kennedy half dollar series would be the forty percent silver Proof strikes without the “S” mintmark that were produced at the Philadelphia Mint on August 12, 1974, and put on display August 13, 1974, at the American Numismatic Association (ANA) summer convention in Florida. After the ANA convention, all but three of these forty percent silver Proof Kennedy half dollars without the “S” mint mark were melted with not even a copy kept for the National Numismatic Collection. The three surviving pieces were paired up with their counterparts (Bicentennial Ike dollar and Washington quarter dollar) and one set each presented to President Gerald Ford, Counselor to the President Anne Armstrong and the third set to John Warner.[/QUOTE]
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