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Any guesstimate on number of AH 64 Kennedys were made?

LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I was at a small show over the weekend and searching through proof sets and was able to pick out a 1964 set with an AH half in it. I was wondering, was there any information on how many of these may have been made?

I also want to thank all those on this board that have posted information on identifying them, it helped enormously. While the one I picked up isn't really anything special, no monster cameo or anything, it is cool to get my mitts on one still in the plastic.

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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    The best estimate I have seen, on how many of these were produced, is 1-2 percent of the 64 proof production. I actually wrote to an "expert" whose response was something like "the mint didn't record the number."
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  • littlewicherlittlewicher Posts: 1,822 ✭✭
    I would guess around 7,000.


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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    About five to ten times what LW just guessed.

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  • littlewicherlittlewicher Posts: 1,822 ✭✭
    Thinking big, Russ?image


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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    i have 2 slabbed, and what appears to be 3 more in mint proof sets...hows the best way to tell...they look exactly like slabbed ones..
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  • DCAMFranklinDCAMFranklin Posts: 2,862 ✭✭
    It's a Modern, variety coin. Who cares??
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It's a Modern, variety coin. Who cares?? >>



    My guess is that those who collect Kennedy Half dollars, rather then halves with an ugly fat bald guy, would care.

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  • UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭
    Aren't the ugly bald guy coins dollars? Joe.
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    all the estimates i've seen place it around 100,000 but that seems like a lowball guess to me. ask russ, he must have at least the 7,000 that lw guessed!!

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  • supercoinsupercoin Posts: 2,323 ✭
    Hey! Let's stick to bashing halves in a Kennedy thread, thanks.

    Sure Franklin looks like he has more hair, but least you know Ike isn't wearing a rug.
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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jim Barlow, my favorite Kennedy expert (he's been collecting and selling them since 1960! image ) believes it is somewhere around 70,000 to 90,000.
    Plenty to go around for all who want one... image

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  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    My guess is that those who collect Kennedy Half dollars, rather then halves with an ugly fat bald guy, would care.

    Actually, Liberty as depicted on Barber halves is a woman. She's not bald, just wearing a cap. image
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  • kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭
    This thread is starting to get interesting. We've seen a slam on Ikes, Barbers, Franklin's. I'll throw in a jab as well since I can't stand 2 cent pieces and Sheild Nickels. They wish they had a fat bald guy on them....yeah! take that, who's next....Abe you say, his beard looks like a home for wayward spiders, oh yea...........alright I stoped just short of the chick with wings on her hat imageimageimage
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  • jmp81jmp81 Posts: 52
    Shiro,

    What in the artist's rendering convinces you that the obverse of the Barber half is depicting a woman?
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  • Rob0126Rob0126 Posts: 142 ✭
    I can't really think of a coin to bash. I suppose I don't like Counterfeit coins....YEH!! Take that...image

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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I can't really think of a coin to bash. I suppose I don't like Counterfeit coins....YEH!! Take that... >>



    You can't think of a coin to bash?!? Not even SBA dollars? You like those? SACs? You like those ugly Ikes? How about that crummy eagle on the reverse of Peace dollars? Heck, the last good dollar coin was the Morgan! image

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    What difference does it make how many AH Kennedy Half Dollars were made, Russ ownes most of them anyhow.
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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bear, stop trying to stay on topic! I'm trying to steer this into a dollar-bashing thread! image

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Sorry. Bear image
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  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    What in the artist's rendering convinces you that the obverse of the Barber half is depicting a woman?

    That was the rumor. image
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I think that she is a woman and a zoftig one at that. Bear
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  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    No idea how many were minted, but I bet we have seen a picture in here of everyone. image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What in the artist's rendering convinces you that the obverse of the Barber half is depicting a woman? >>



    I think the same could be asked of the SBA. That is one ugly broad.

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Russ - I am sure glade that SBA didnt lead the temperance league. To look upon her contenance , would surly drive any man to drink. And rather heavily and quickly at that. Bear
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