Asking 4 help/explanation for this '64 JFK

allnewsanchor

So I was digging in a box of 90 and 40 silver Kennedys and came up with this one. Odd striping. Looks woody-ish. It's been in my family's possession only for 60 years. TIA

coinbuf

Just some surface tarnish.

allnewsanchor

@coinbuf said:
Just some surface tarnish.

Strange pattern, though. Wonder what could have caused it.

OAKSTAR

What kind of box and what was the environment that box was kept in?

jmlanzaf

@allnewsanchor said:

@coinbuf said:
Just some surface tarnish.

Strange pattern, though. Wonder what could have caused it.

Roughly 3.6 million things from contact with foreign objects to foreign substances on the surface as well as possibly rolling stress.

allnewsanchor

@OAKSTAR said:
What kind of box and what was the environment that box was kept in?

It was in a standard paper roll. The box holds JFKs and pre-65 Roosevelt dimes and Washington quarters.

You

Imperfections in the alloy, rolled flat in the planchet rolling press. Same thing as woodgrain on cents.

allnewsanchor

@You said:
Imperfections in the alloy, rolled flat in the planchet rolling press. Same thing as woodgrain on cents.

...which means no additional value outside of melt, You?

MFeld

@allnewsanchor said:

@You said:
Imperfections in the alloy, rolled flat in the planchet rolling press. Same thing as woodgrain on cents.

...which means no additional value outside of melt, You?

I’m not You but you knew that. 😉
Regardless of what caused the discoloration, the coin has no extra value over melt.

allnewsanchor

@MFeld said:

I’m not You but you knew that. 😉
Regardless of what caused the discoloration, the coin has no extra value over melt.

For a second there, I thought we were launching into an Abbott and Costello shtick.