NGC coin with label "SP"...Description says "MS"...???

TUMUSS

Which is it?

Wolf359

Specimen?

cointagious

To me, a specimen strike is a business strike.

TUMUSS

Thanks guys. I guess NGC saw some charateristic on the coin that they deemed to be a specially prepared planchet.

Breen lists 1,117,600 Business strikes with NO Proofs at New Orleans.

LeeG

TUMUSS, Where in the Internet World do you find those pictures in your Sig Line? Their a riot!! Lee

TUMUSS

<< <i> TUMUSS, Where in the Internet World do you find those pictures in your Sig Line? Their a riot!! Lee >>



In the places our mothers warned us about!

hrlaser

<< <i>Which is it? >>



For some unknown reason, NGC recently changed the wording on their slabs from the full word "Specimen" to just "SP"..

I have a 1998-S Silver SMS Matte Kennedy Half in an few years old NGC slab with their older, smaller font, and the squarish holygram with the ANA logo on the back, and the label say "MS 69 Specimen." They changed that and they now slab this same coin as "SP 69" (or whatever the grade is) and the word "Specimen" has vanished from their newer labels.. No clue why they changed the wording on the label. PCGS slabs these coins as "SMS" and ICG slabs them as "Matte." I believe when The Mint sold and advertised them back in 1998, they called them "Matte Proofs".. mintage just under 63,000.. only sold in the two-coin Kennedy Collectors Set.. but every slabbing company has a different term for them.. go figure.. nothing's ever easy, is it.. LOL ..

Harv

braddick

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<< <i>Which is it? >>

For some unknown reason, NGC recently changed the wording on their slabs from the full word "Specimen" to just "SP".. I have a 1998-S Silver SMS Matte Kennedy Half in an few years old NGC slab with their older, smaller font, and the squarish holygram with the ANA logo on the back, and the label say "MS 69 Specimen." They changed that and they now slab this same coin as "SP 69" (or whatever the grade is) and the word "Specimen" has vanished from their newer labels.. No clue why they changed the wording on the label. PCGS slabs these coins as "SMS" and ICG slabs them as "Matte." I believe when The Mint sold and advertised them back in 1998, they called them "Matte Proofs".. mintage just under 63,000.. only sold in the two-coin Kennedy Collectors Set.. but every slabbing company has a different term for them.. go figure.. nothing's ever easy, is it.. LOL .. Harv >>

I just recently sold one of those on eBay: NGC Labeled SP Kennedy half

I think that insert desribes the coin more accurately than the SMS designation PCGS gives.

fivecents

I would say SMS also.
The mint says the 1998 "matte" half has the same finish as all of the business strke modern commemoratives.

hrlaser

<< <i> I just recently sold one of those on eBay: <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3955510537&ssPageName=STRK:MEAFB:IT" target=blank>NGC Labeled SP Kennedy half</A>

I think that insert desribes the coin more accurately than the SMS designation PCGS gives. >>



Here's mine.. all mine!! Muahahaha.. ..

A formerly $400.00+ coin now worth less than a clad state quarter with an extra leaf on it..



Harv

mrearlygold

Who cares, it's a dog



Tom