Searched $600 worth of JFK's and .........

IndianHeadMan

I almost completed one clad album and only got one silver 64 out of the lot. I was hoping to find more than that. Are these typical odds? I'm going to start spending all these halves and see how many my wife gets back at the bank.

nwcs

Well, in my last $100 worth of JFKs I had only 2 40% silver ones in the lot. And a cool-toned bicentennial.

cacheman

In my last $600 I have only found 9, 40%...hardly worth the effort if you ask me and I'm pissing off my bank every time I walk in with canvas bags full of halves.

PS Are you guys getting any other mints besides Denver? In this $600, all were "D" except for one "S". Wanna trade?

IndianHeadMan

Unless I am mistaken that "S" mint would be a proof coin. I hope you saved it. I got about 70% D mint and 10% 1971. The banks around here don't care if you bring in Halves, most of the time the tellers are excited you are changing the pace of thier day.

PS-I would of been happy with 6 silver coins. I guess the halfs have been cherried to death. I would guess that at least half of the rolls I went through were most likely searched before I got them.

CarlWohlforth

I bought something from the local drug store 3 weeks ago. I received a %40 silver Kennedy in change. The cashier was appologizing for not having enough quarters to make change. I mentioned I collected Kennedies (I guess I now am collecting some!) and did he have any more. I bought them all. I got 7 in total, 6 of which were %40 silver.

Now if I was actually looking for them I'm sure I'd go through thousands and not get one. It can't be true but it seems I only find things when I'm not looking!!!

nwcs

I had a similar thing with kennedys. Ended up with 1 90% and 5 40%. Ahh, felt good for face value.

Have you noticed that most of the 1980s strikes and some 1990s strikes of JFKs look like crap? Horrible die maintance. So obvious die friction stress. Some were clearly uncirculated, but were horribly minted.

I think high quality clad JFKs from the 80s will bring a premium in the future.

Hunt

Hey, if your looking for a nice 1964 there's one for sale on ebay at a good price right now. Even a great BIN price!!!


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1375089796&indexURL=0&photoDisplayType=2#ebaylargephotohosting

Thank FC57Coins for finding this one.

steventheyn

Here's a link to the auction Hunt was talking about.

1964 Kennedy Auction

I sure hope that's a joke.

cacheman

I'm still kicking myself because during my last road trip I was picking up rolls at all the little town banks of the towns I went through. Since it was my first time at this I assumed that I wanted the machine rolled (tight white paper crimped on the ends around the rims) and not the hand rolled ( dirty pink paper taped closed). All of my silvers came out of the only $10 hand rolled roll. For some reason I was under the impression that hand rolls would have been cherried already. Obviously that isn't the case and I need to get back to a town in Wyoming where there was $1200 in hand rolled they offered to sell me before someone else drops by there

jtryka

My last search was a week ago, and I ended up going through about $200 worth, and found 4 solid rolls of 40% silver (that's very unusual), in addition to 6 other 40% silver, and a 1974-S proof.

keets

forget about that squat, there already gone!!

al h.

pontiacinf

I dumped about 100$$ bucks in these at the ANA and all around the city (40%ones) as to me they arnt
really worth saving to me.

presleyh

i just took 500.00 back to the bank today. the 40% halves are neat but only worth about .60 there were 48 out of 2000 coins, i found 9 cracked die 1995 halves. the crack is in the same place on all of them. not worth much but again kinda neat. the 1976 s is not a proof coin, it was released as a 40% half in circulation. i also found one double die 1972. and what i think will be about 6 or 7 ms 65 or 66 halves. just got to get up the nerve to send them in.

jtryka

presleyh,

Not a bad haul, though the fun is half in the search. The 76-S silver halves were never released into circulation, so that is pretty cool. I also found a lot of die cracks on the 97-Ps in my bunch.

presleyh

about 11,000,000 silver clads were struck in1976 that were not proof coins. were they all mint sets?

jtryka

yes, I believe they were all sold in 3-coin silver bicentennial sets, about 5 million unc sets and 4 million proof sets. To the best of my knowledge, the last 40% silver halves released into circulation were in 1969. The 11 million mintage of the 40% silver unc listed in the red book is approximate, as the mint released a lot of oddball products for the bicentennial, like first day covers, special souvenir sets, etc. etc. Of course I could be wrong, but for the thousands of halves I searched, I've never found one in circulation, though I have found several 1987s which had a mintage of only 2 million, and were only available in mint sets.