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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 26588394, member: 4626"]I have almost every 2014 Kennedy half; the last ones I'm missing is the standard silver proof from that year's silver proof set, and the gold one which realistically I'll probably never get (because if I ever reach the point I can afford it, there's other coins I'd rather spend that much money on lol). But yeah, the 2014 silver proof set was popular probably for that reason: a lot wanted to finish the 2014 50th anniversary set.</p><p><br /></p><p>The gold one was surprisingly (to me anyway, but I'm biased I guess in favor of JFK halves) a poor seller, still isn't that popular, and sells today for only slightly more than the gold melt (it weirdly has 0.75 troy oz. of gold in it; that odd fraction of 3/4 might be why it wasn't that popular. Besides being made of gold, the only difference from it and a standard half dollar is the 1964-2014 date on it).</p><p><br /></p><p>I've always wondered why they didn't do something special with the half dollar in 2017, which was the 100th anniversary of JFK's birth. Missed opportunity I think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 26588394, member: 4626"]I have almost every 2014 Kennedy half; the last ones I'm missing is the standard silver proof from that year's silver proof set, and the gold one which realistically I'll probably never get (because if I ever reach the point I can afford it, there's other coins I'd rather spend that much money on lol). But yeah, the 2014 silver proof set was popular probably for that reason: a lot wanted to finish the 2014 50th anniversary set. The gold one was surprisingly (to me anyway, but I'm biased I guess in favor of JFK halves) a poor seller, still isn't that popular, and sells today for only slightly more than the gold melt (it weirdly has 0.75 troy oz. of gold in it; that odd fraction of 3/4 might be why it wasn't that popular. Besides being made of gold, the only difference from it and a standard half dollar is the 1964-2014 date on it). I've always wondered why they didn't do something special with the half dollar in 2017, which was the 100th anniversary of JFK's birth. Missed opportunity I think.[/QUOTE]
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