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Valued Member
United States
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What is the difference between the 1979S type 1 and type 2 proofs? I see in the Red Book "Filled S" and "Clear S" but I'm not sure what that means... Can somebody point me to photos of the differences? thanks |
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United States
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United States
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Congratulations on your venture into the beautiful world of collecting the Kennedy's. You will be surprised to see how good they look once completed and in a nice looking folder.
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United States
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Night Hawk
good web site. Thanks
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United States
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United States
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Well that's good to hear; but I insisted on using the 1970-D Kennedy in my year set - and actually found one that had been inadvertently placed in circulation on ebay (even the seller listed it as "circulated;" it turned out to be like AU-55). |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have been having trouble really getting concrete info on which JFK halfs are silver, and which do not. You yanks make it confusing by using the term "clad" to mean two different things! For the 1970, there is an S, and a D right? Are both silver? I have an S that I bought that appears to be proof or at the very least BU, and it passed the " tissue test". I have heard the 1970D is the key date in the series, why is this? Is it silver? Was it a small mintage? |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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1970D- 40% silver clad, Mint Set-only mintage 2.15M
1970S- 40% silver clad, Proof-only mintage 2.63M
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The 1970-D half is the key because of it's low mintage, and the mintage was low because they were only included in the 1970 mint set. None were made for circulation. As for which Kennedy halves are silver 90% silver 1964 and D business strikes and 1964 proof 1992-S to 2012-S silver proofs (There are also coppernickel clad proofs for all these years as well.) 1998-S matte proof from the Robert F Kennedy commemorative set. 40% silver 1965-67, 1968-D,69-D,and 70-D business strikes. 1976-S business strikes 1968-S to 70-S proofs. Some of the 1976-S proofs (the 76-S proof also comes as a coppernickel clad issue) I think that is all the silver Kennedys |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The reason the term clad is used for regular and silver Kennedys is that the 40% silver coins from 65-70 were clad with silver. I do not remember the precise percentages, but the core of the coins is a low percentage of silver that is clad in a higher percentage layer of silver all equaling out to 40% silver. Therefor people tend to call the 40 percenters silver clad. Its a non homogenous coin. (I used a big boy word there!)  |
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United States
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(I used a big boy word there!) Don ... have you been reading the dictionary when were not looking? That's not playing fair  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There are also 76S Uncirculated silver in the 40% column that were produced for bicentennial sets with 40% quarters and Ikes. Definitely not proofs - I have both and the difference is clear.
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United States
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I know we were discussing the clad kennedys but I have found the 82 and 83 the hardest to find in gem without paying the significant premium. I know there were no mint sets produced that year, but dang these are tough coins to get reasonable! |
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 United States
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I do not remember the precise percentages... The core is 20.9% silver and 79.1% copper. The cladding layers are 80% silver and 20% copper. Net result is 40% silver and 60% copper.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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There are also 76S Uncirculated silver in the 40% column that were produced for bicentennial sets with 40% quarters and Ikes. I included that one in my original post. |
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