NGC Certifies Bag Of First Day Of Issue 1964-D Kennedy Half Dollars For Rare Collectibles TV

Not a Kennedy half collector so maybe I'm not up on these type of things but it seems like they are trying to hype it up to justify the price.

(ps. Dr.Daryl, that's one interesting letter. Are you related to the addressee?)

I though P T Barnum died a long time ago?

Interesting? Yes. Unique? Unlikely. Rare? *shrug*

The Denver mint's ceremonial first strike occurred in mid-February 1964. Even before that ceremony, Denver had been striking large quantities of business strike Kennedy halves and shipping them to the FRB. This bag may well have been released to the public on the first day of issue, but it also could have been released much later. It is possible (maybe probable) that other bags dating back to late January or early February still exist.

I grew up in Denver. I remember my dad taking the daily deposit from our family hardware store to the bank every afternoon. I made a lot of those trips with him, and usually bought a couple rolls of cents to search and returned my junk coins. I sure don't remember the day he mentioned it, and I know I wasn't with him that day because I would have remembered the scene, but he always told the story and laughed about having to wait to make the deposit because people were "waddling like penguins" out of the bank carrying bags of "those new half dollars." (He also used to call the Franklin halves "those coins with that hippie on them.")

This is such silliness - and why the hobby, at its roots, is built on the backs of wide-eyed newbies who buy this sort of soon-to-be-worth-a-lot-less crap.

What a marketing gimmick.

1964-D Kennedy half dollar FDOI with a COA now being sold.

I should get a tell a marketer to sell my bag of 1964 cents. Hmmm at $100 each that would make $500,000 for them.