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Pillar of the Community
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Circulated questionable colour !
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Appreciate the response pacificoin, I have a pretty wild pcgs sp66 sms Roosevelt full coin toner that could argue questionable color. I think a lot of younger people getting into coins are ok or even like questionable colors, whether or not that's smart, it seems to be a thing.
Edited by Odee13
03/08/2026 4:13 pm
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May be a thing but certainly not wise or profitable.
Send this pictured one or a similar coin to the graders and you will be extremely disappointed when it is returned Details questionable colour . Give it a Try and let us know how it works out for you . ANACS would cost you the least amount to find out . PCGS or NGC would light fire to at least 60 to 70 all in .
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03/08/2026 4:13 pm
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Again thank you for the response pacificoin, always appreciate the feedback. I wouldn't ever send a 64 Kennedy in for grading especially this one. I just thought this would be a good opinion coin to post.
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Bedrock of the Community
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AU details, questionable color. Your coin might be showing die polishing lines on the obverse.
Errers and Varietys.
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I see an AU condition coin with questionable color toning.
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Bedrock of the Community
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MS-63. I see lots of die polish lines from an early strike. I have one like this that I stood in line for on the first day of issue Apr 8, 1964. They were only allowing one coin per customer at a BoA I had an account at. Great coin!
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Bedrock of the Community
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You are saying that is how the B of A gave out the
1964 Halves at one per customer ?
Strange if true . Those snap lock holders were
how the Halves were RETAILED by coin dealers
and department stores in the US and other countries .
Mine was acquired at WOODWARDS Department
store IN Vancouver BC April 1964 @ $1.29. CAD
which was about 1.20 USD at the time .
Don't think banks were doling them out in fancy
holders at face value.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pacificcoin, it is true. I would have bought a couple more if they would have sold them that day. The coin came off a metal coin tray at the tellers window. I bought the holder a few weeks later at a local TG&Y dime store and marked the date I got the coin on the holder. This was in the Los Angeles area, so the bank had to limit one per customer due to the popularity and what they were given. I waited almost an hour in line at the bank to get it. Maybe other cities or towns gave out more, but that was all I could get at that bank.
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That makes sense then .
You got the holder afterwards.
Over the years we have bought lots of these
in the pictured holder . Most are not nicely
toned save the odd one with pretty rim tone.
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Bedrock of the Community
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[q]Can you give a little more info on your thought?
you are correct in heavy die polishing however, I should have looked closer at those but rushed this one. i'll retract my polishing comment
you have multiple larger scrapes/hairline etc below the ear, along the ridge of the bottom of the bust, the jaw, the high points of the ear also the top of the shield. I'm better more but the glare from the light may be obscuring them. I can't see how this coin could be MS with scratches like those,
the rev toning is the proper color sequence for silver toning. it may have been stored rev up thus no obv toning.
AU53 or MS63. I'm leaning towards the AU side
this is not a coin I would spend to have graded
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Edited by Odee13
03/23/2026 11:00 am
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i found some that looks very similar with tons of polish lines. I also found one that has those marks all across the bottom of the bust slabbed MS63. someone was having a bad day and took it out on the die. the rev of the coin was exposed and has the correct toning progression.
if its MS then i'd say MS62 otherwise AU58. reverse is weak which lends one to consider the AU grade. I think the toning was just rubbed off on the high points like the tips of the eagles tail feathers.
I'm going with MS62. I'm not a fan of kennedys and never really collected them so I just did a cursory assessment and should have taken the time to look closer at it. it is interesting from the standpoint of the harsh polishing that occurred
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