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1968 Kennedy Half Dollar Lamanation Clamshell Error!

arby96arby96 Posts: 229 ✭✭✭
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Hello While CRH half dollars for silver, I pulled this 1968 Kennedy Half Dollar Lamanation Clamshell error. I wanted to share it here. I have been a member here for a while, yet forgot all about this site. I use another site to show most of my finds. Hope you like it. I pulled this coin on Sept 22, 2017



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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well welcome back.



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    i like your extra chimney better. :grin:

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is that 2 halves fused together? Where's Fred? Peace Roy

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The color of it makes it seem non-silver

    What’s it weigh?

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  • arby96arby96 Posts: 229 ✭✭✭

    @MsMorrisine said:
    The color of it makes it seem non-silver

    What’s it weigh?

    The coins weighs in at 11.49 grams

  • kazkaz Posts: 9,219 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome back. That almost looks like a secret compartment, like a Trade Dollar "opium dollar!"

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    my bad. 40% and clad weights are within tolerances of each other

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  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 8,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool - When you first found it did you try to pull it apart before you realized what it was?

  • arby96arby96 Posts: 229 ✭✭✭

    Nope, I knew it was a type of Lamination error, I didn't know it was called a clamshell until I researched it. I spelled it wrong in my heading. LOL

  • Dug13Dug13 Posts: 275 ✭✭✭

    Welcome back & nice find!
    Thanks for sharing.

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice clamshell split outer layer Congrats on the find

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome back... And that is a great find.... Thanks for the excellent pictures. Cheers, RickO

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 16,629 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 19, 2022 10:46AM

    Awesome catch. Even better than finding the silver value!
    At first, it would appear to maybe being a magician coin. Glad it's not.
    Very cool to have. It even got Fred's approval.
    Congratulations ;)

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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fantastic clamshell error coin <3

  • arby96arby96 Posts: 229 ✭✭✭

    Thank you all for the kind words. I love this hobby, yet sometimes its a bit confusing specially the double dies. Obvious DD are easy its all the others that pop up that can get tricky.

  • ThreeCentSilverFLThreeCentSilverFL Posts: 1,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm enjoying your posts of your previous finds @arby96. Something nice and fresh around here. Thanks!

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,609 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome find!

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  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    is there really no concern that this coin appears to have been severely tampered with?

    also in the one image, the inside does not appear to be what i'd expect to see from a legit clamshell, granted i really can't see much.

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  • HoneyMarketHoneyMarket Posts: 806 ✭✭✭✭

    cool

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