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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;alcochaser, post: 311458, member: 11241&quot;]Straight from the mint.</p><p>-------------------------</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The United States Mint is opening the vault and offering <b>never before released 2001-dated (P) Kennedy half dollars!</b> To complete this offer, the United States Mint is including 2001-dated (D) Kennedy half dollars in the two-roll set as the 2001 (D) were only released in small quantities in limited areas of the country. Your collection of Kennedy half dollars can now be complete with the purchase of these coins.</p><p>--------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint made a bunch of these coins and stored most of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are right that the 2002+ series are low mintage no intended for circ. But the 2001 is not as prevalent as 2000 and older. Especially the P mint coins!&nbsp; The mint selling rolls of 2001 today tells me that at least part of the mintage was stuffed in the vaults.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion, as the Clad Kennedy have some enigmatic coins, And the 80s tops my list.</p><p><br /></p><p>1987 is obvious, but less obviously 1986 can be maddeningly hard to find. 1985 and 1984 are not far behind... but can be found. I have searched countless halves and never seen a 1986... wonder if they are not all sitting somewhere</p><p><br /></p><p>In reality the 1971,1972,1974 and 1976 coins continue to grossly overwhelm the series....50 to 60% of the coins I find are these dates. Halves don&#039;t circulate much if at all, most I find here the tellers say have been sitting in thier vaults for a couple years or more..</p><p><br /></p><p>Oddly I run across two types of rolls, each has equal chance of the occasional 40% silver, franklin, or 1964. One type of roll allways has nothing newer then 1982 or 1983 with a HUGE dominances of the above big four common dates. The others have up to 2000 with less dominance of the big dates, but not by much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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