JFK 1964
erica420
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erica420
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erica420
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It's pretty decent but No! If it even straight graded which it most likely won't you're looking at MS63.
Not really worth getting graded and slabbed, these are real common because so many people hoarded them as mementos for JFK. Also those diagonal scratches visible behind Kennedy’s neck in the field of the coin will hurt the grade.
Mr_Spud
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No. The coin is AU (Almost Uncirculated) and has obvious hairline scratches on it. It is worth its value in silver bullion, which at today's price of silver (around $23.64 per ounce) makes it worth about $8.64 for this piece. Certification would cost multiples of that value.
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Except when hunting for silver, I would stick to government packaged sets and avoid coin rolls and bank searches.
You can have a lot of cheap fun searching Modern 1960-2023 proof and mint sets.
It will train your eyes to see differences in quality pretty quickly.
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No.
Unless a coin is worth close to $200 it is probably not worth the cost of having it slabbed by one of the major Third Party Graders. Your coin is an AU 1964-D Kennedy Half which is extremely common and is worth no more than melt value, which, as TomB notes, is about $8.64 at today's silver price.
With modern coins, and even most modern varieties, you need condition rarities to make a coin worth slabbing.
Some coins with attractive toning even fail to recoup grading fees.
That said, cherry picking quality coins from sets give you a baseline of what coins from the mint are typically supposed to look like.
Or more simply, you could buy a couple of slabbed examples for comparison.
Age, handling, storage all play a role.
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