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<p>[QUOTE="BigsWick, post: 67582, member: 3534"]I didn't take a picture before I returned it to the bank. I, like <b>Conder101</b>, believed it had no <i>numismatic</i> value. I decided that it was merely a curiosity that turned up by chance. Maybe I should have kept it? I'm not sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>At about the same time I found something that interested me a bit more, a 1983 Kennedy (P? will have to double check) that looked as if it had been made of gold or was gold plated. Again, this wasn't done by an amateur. The finish is, for all intents and purposes, uniform and flawless. I kept that one, but couldn't find any information on it. I posted the details on another Web forum and got little in the way of feedback. I thought it might have been something different/special because of the date too: 1983, the 20 year anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>logiebear</b>: Are the dates that are stamped/pressed into the Kennedy done in block-looking numbers, about 1/8" high, and each date measuring about 5/16" long? If so it sounds like we got the same thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BigsWick, post: 67582, member: 3534"]I didn't take a picture before I returned it to the bank. I, like [B]Conder101[/B], believed it had no [I]numismatic[/I] value. I decided that it was merely a curiosity that turned up by chance. Maybe I should have kept it? I'm not sure. At about the same time I found something that interested me a bit more, a 1983 Kennedy (P? will have to double check) that looked as if it had been made of gold or was gold plated. Again, this wasn't done by an amateur. The finish is, for all intents and purposes, uniform and flawless. I kept that one, but couldn't find any information on it. I posted the details on another Web forum and got little in the way of feedback. I thought it might have been something different/special because of the date too: 1983, the 20 year anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. [B]logiebear[/B]: Are the dates that are stamped/pressed into the Kennedy done in block-looking numbers, about 1/8" high, and each date measuring about 5/16" long? If so it sounds like we got the same thing.[/QUOTE]
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