An unusual one for the Kennedy crew.

sliderider

Is it the only one?

cladking

I believe there are three of these. This is likely the one which was just
found recently.

Bikingnut

Thats amazing considering it was minted 7 years after the last 40 percent Kennedy was minted. How do you suppose that could happen?

cladking

The same composition was used on the silver clad '76 unc and proof coins.

If memory serves they are believed to have come back in bins used in San
Francisco.

19Lyds

Gosh, this is news to me. I've never heard of this. I guess I'll take my $500 and head back to the bank to search some more rolls!

ms70

That's a pretty cool error.

Now how did the original owner find it? Does he sit around weighing all his Kennedys?

FC57Coins

<< <i>Now how did the original owner find it? Does he sit around weighing all his Kennedys? >>




You know - actually it would've been easy to miss. If you open a roll of Kennedies and just look at the edges of the coins trying to spot silver ones, its really easy to miss the silver clad ones unless you look at them head on. That's one of the reasons I think you can still find 40%'ers pretty regularly when you get rolls at the bank.

sliderider

FC57 is probably right. I have noticed searching through rolls that when you look at the edges, the 90% silvers appear to be either blast white or brown/yellow toned, the clads are obvious with their sandwich appearance, but the 40% silver ones are usually dull gray and easily mistaken for worn or dirty clads. I can see how something like this can easily be overlooked. Even if you were to spot one of these and pull it out thinking it was a 40% coin, you would look at the date and throw it back thinking they didn't use any silver in 77.