Check out my new 1956 Type 1 Franklin Half Dollar!

ModCrewman

Picked this up this weekend. What do you think?

lasvegasteddy

looks easy cam on this reverse...what's the obverse loook like???

georgiacop50

Looks high grade!

ModCrewman

You just had to ask didn't you?

Meltdown

Half of that Franklin is AWESOME.

mkman123

Still a nice coin!!

GoldClause

<< <i>Still a nice coin!! >>

ricko

Nice Franklin... not CAM, but very nice. Cheers, RickO

ajman

Beautiful coin, what's the difference between Ty. 1 and Ty. 2? I was watching (gulp) Rick Tomaska on tv one day and I thought it had something to do with the eagle on the reverse. But I can't remember what specifically.

ModCrewman

The Type I is the design as used from 1950 - early 1956, and the Type II is the design used from Later 1956 - 1963. You can see more detail on the small eagle on the reverse of the Type II, the Type I is the rarer of the two.

19Lyds

<< <i>The Type I is the design as used from 1950 - early 1956, and the Type II is the design used from Later 1956 - 1963. You can see more detail on the small eagle on the reverse of the Type II, the Type I is the rarer of the two.
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Wouldn't the term "less common" be more appropriate?

ModCrewman

Perhaps less "less common" would be better terminology, however "rarer" would not be incorrect either as it is "more rare", than the T2, though of course neither are rare in a "5 known" sense of the word.

That being said, my experience is that maybe 1 in 20 sets I look at has the Type I?

SkyMan

Congrats on the pickup! I like it.

I also have a one sided '56 T.1 with the cameo on the reverse. Since the reverse is the side you're going to be looking at/showing, it seems to me that that is the more important side to have cameo contrast on, so I quite like how yours looks. Here's mine...

SanctionII

Count me in as a collector who has a 1956 Type 1 half dollar that has a brilliant obverse and a Cameo reverse.

I also have one or two brilliant Type 1 1956 half dollars.

It is not very often that a Type 1 half will show up in an OGP proof set.

ModCrewman

The real tease of it is the OGP envelope was labeled "Cameo Half", and it came out tails side up...talk about getting worked into a frothy frenzy only to be let down so cruelly.