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Why do type sets differentiate between planchet composition?

tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The half dollar type set has the following Kennedy halves:

Kennedy Half Dollar - Silver (1964, 1992-Present)
Kennedy Half Dollar - Silver Clad (1965-1970)
Kennedy Half Dollar - Clad (1971-Present)
Kennedy Half Dollar - Silver Bicentennial (1976)
Kennedy Half Dollar - Clad Bicentennial (1976)

Seems to me that really should only be two coins for a type set: the original type and the Bicentennial type. Those are the only two designs!
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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,025 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Possibly to account for the different weights of the coins?

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  • LincolnsRuleLincolnsRule Posts: 1,738 ✭
    The coins look totally different. Why would anyone not include them?
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To my mind there's more difference between a 40% half and a clad than between the bicentennial and a regular issue.

    To each his own.
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  • CalGoldCalGold Posts: 2,608 ✭✭
    Look at the bright side, the exta clads are only going to add about $1.50 to the cost of your set. The proceeds from the sale of the Eliasberg nickel ought to cover that.

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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Look at the bright side, the exta clads are only going to add about $1.50 to the cost of your set. The proceeds from the sale of the Eliasberg nickel ought to cover that.

    CG >>



    Yes, but the horror of owning 5 kennedy halves may outweigh the joy.... image
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  • CalGoldCalGold Posts: 2,608 ✭✭
    You're looking at this the wrong way. When you look at those halves don't think of them as Kennedies, think of them as Anti-Bushes.

    CG
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,023 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TDN:

    It is the same thinking process that you see with the zinc coated steel 1943 cents being a subset wheat type lincoln cent separate and apart from the 95% copper lincoln wheat cents.

    Now there are even more subset type wheat cents such as the gun shell case cents of 1944, etc. but I guess the litmus test is whether the composition difference is obvious to the naked eye to make it a "substantive" enough subset type coin.

    Furthermore, this gives rise to great planchet composition error coins such as the 1943 "copper" cents and the 1944 "steel" cents, just to name a few.

    Once again, it is all to do with the litmus test of being obvious to the naked eye.
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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Once again, it is all to do with the litmus test of being obvious to the naked eye.

    Oreville - that's my point. The difference between a steel cent and a bronze cent is striking to the eye. In the holder, how much difference to the eye is there for a silver, a 40% silver and a clad Kennedy half? Some, but not much.

    By way of comparison, they only have one entry for the Gobrecht dollars in the dollar type set - even tho there's a large difference to the design between no stars obverse/ stars reverse and stars obverse, no stars reverse.

    Guess it's cuz the halves are cheap? image
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Those are the only two designs! >>



    This is true. There's the classic design, and the butt ugly current spaghetti hair design.



    << <i>In the holder, how much difference to the eye is there for a silver, a 40% silver and a clad Kennedy half? >>



    For the Bicentennial coins, there's a huge visual difference between a 40% Kennedy and a clad Kennedy. For the later proof coins, very little difference.

    Russ, NCNE



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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Heck lets throw in the Accented Hair and Birthmark Kennedy for good measure. You might as well have 7.

    All jokes aside I was wondering the same thing. I am building a 20th century type set with varieties and noticed that there are more Kennedy's than any other coin from 1900-1999 in this set. Oh wait how about the IKE dollars, there are a bunch there too.
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,023 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TDN:

    There is a huge difference between the looks of the majestic 1964 Kennedy half and the 40% silver clad Kennedies of 1965-1970.

    The Kennedies of 1971 is so different in feel of weight as well as coloration than any of their predecessors!

    I daresay that furthermore if you pull out a 1986 Kennedy with his ever enlargening and majestic head and then compare that coin to the

    shrunken "Beetle Juice" head of Kennedy of any post 1997 year and you can't tell me you see the obvious difference in type?

    In fact comparing the "Beetle Juice" (one of my all time favorite cult film) when it was released in 1988 must have given the US Mint the idea of really shrinking the head of Kennedy after 1988?

    Look at the picture of the poor shrunken head soul at the right when filmed in 1988 and that was the future of the Kennedy shrunken head post 1988.

    That was actors Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin to the left.

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