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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Caleb, post: 2459287, member: 32795&quot;]Well …….. what you type is a bunch of bologna.&nbsp; There was no first release of the Kennedy half dollar?&nbsp; How about March 24, 1964 from the Federal Reserve. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure what you mean by “And there were no third party graders so all of this is after the fact.” Or what a third party grader has to do with anything here.&nbsp; Maybe you are putting too much faith in labels like PCGS use of, “FIRST STIKES” which to me means nothing at all.&nbsp; But I have to wonder how many people buy, sell, collect or trade coins with these “FIRST STRIKE” labels and further I must wonder what “proper legal documentation” these labels have (but according to you, no one in any collectables business won&#039;t touch an item without the proper legal documentation)?</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1976, my dad went to the back and bought twenty new two dollar bills on the first day of issue, the notes have consecutive serial numbers.&nbsp; After he bought the two dollar bills, we went to the post office and bought 10 stamps, placed a stamp on the first and last five bills and the postmaster hand canceled the stamps.&nbsp; Even though the ten bills in the middle have no marking, as a group I believe it can be shown that they were all acquired on the first day of issue and no third party grader was needed.</p><p><br /></p><p>You collect what you like, but to me a letter from Ken Bressett would mean more to me then a “FIRST STRIKE” label from a third party grading company.&nbsp; I won&#039;t even get into all of the mis attributions the third party grading companies get into but I guess you would take them at face value.&nbsp; Sad, very sad.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said earlier, George has a coin with a story, no more and no less.&nbsp; If you have no interest in the coin or the story, fine but get off your high horse, Ken Bressett’s signature doesn’t have to be notarized or anything else.&nbsp; If the buyer wants to question the story he can either have the signature authenticated or not buy the coin.&nbsp; If Mr. Bressett said in writing that he bought the coin on March 24, 1964 and later on sent it into NGC for grading and it now sits in an NGC slab with serial number xxxxx – xxx, I see no problem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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