Possible 1969 D 90% Silver Half Kennedy Dollar ((Error))

11.50 grams is a normal weight for this year."1969" 1965 through 1970 they are all 40% silver and should weigh 11.5 grams.Your coin is 40% silver.$4.77 in silver melt value

Thats why a digital scale is a MUST HAVE tool of the trade.

You can pick a good one up for under $30.00 on ebay and they are worth their weight in gold, or in our case SILVER!( LOL!)

Regarding the acquisition of an inexpensive and reliable digital scale I was able to pick the whole package (womb to tomb) up for $ 14.00 which also included the separate and essential 100 gram calibration weight and shipping and handling: model WeighMax W-3805-100G.

This digital model has served me well for nearly two (2) years and the four AAA batteries virtually never need replacing.

Amazon currently has three (3) new ones available for the aforementioned prices.

I also use this little marvel when purchasing gold and silver at yard sales.

As a sidebar comment to any interested parties one might try this tip:

To instill trust between a buyer and a seller always ask a skeptical buyer to weigh their post 1964 quarter using your ‘calibrated' scale and then compare the results to the weight of a quarter that you always carry for comparative purposes; each should weigh 0.200 oz.

When doing this always set the mode on the scale to ounces as opposed to grams since a quarter (non-silver) weighs either 0.200 ounces or 5.67 grams.

This step avoids any potential time consuming issue regarding the significant digit's accuracy to the right of the decimal point in the event one's digital scale LED output shifts upward or downward.

Shifting is a common occurrence with most digital scales and is the primary reason I perform a 20 second calibration procedure using the 100 gram weight before I begin a series of tests.

fyi,
mdpmedia

Thanks everyone, and very sorry for getting you all hyped up on it, I was fooling my self by thinking it was heaver then normal thus leading to the conclusions it was a 90%
And I will be getting myself a new scale.

Thanks for the info mdpmedia

Harbor Freight has nice ones around $13, weigh up to 2# in troy oz, dwt, grams, carats, etc.

A case in point ensues:

This above referred-to technique is especially useful in learning foreign languages such as the word, ‘mesa', which means ‘table' in Spanish.

So when I heard of the word, ‘mesa', for the very first time I initially used the ‘very first' English word that came to ‘my' own mind (no one else's) as a trigger point to tie into this brand new and unknown Spanish word.

The English word that initially came to my mind for the most appropriate association is ‘mess' which obviously implies the existence of a trashy or disorganized environment.

B/t/w one should always try to associate the ‘very first word' that comes to mind when attempting to initially establish this trigger word to be referenced as a memory link sometimes decades into the future.

The reasoning behind this logic is based upon the fact that this ‘very first word' should logically again be recalled as the primary word that ‘one's own mind' (not someone else's published or spoken words that never should have been referenced) ‘originally' assigned void of any external influence to the object or event.

Do not take a lot of time to research or think about what the absolute, very best trigger word should be.

The erroneous act of not using the ‘very first word' approach that appears in ‘one's own mind' is synonymous with incorrectly and most likely coming up with a word decided upon after thinking about multiple word choices that inevitably appear again during future recollections causing confusion when one attempts to accurately reconstruct the same concept in the future.

Therefore, when five years pass, for example, and one has the need to ‘quickly' remember the trigger word of an interesting coin fact, for example, the correct and easy-to-recall word can most rapidly and correctly appear in one's mind since one initially chose a self-derived word at inception.

Stayed tuned for the correlation of my above discussion on the silver halves w/r/t ring tone differentiation which is written starting in a couple of posts below.

Again, when it comes to remembering that a 1964 Kennedy half has a ‘lower' ring tone compared to the Kennedy halves minted between '65 - '70 I now always remember a young one-year-old boy born in 1963 clumsily stacking his first 1964 90% silver half dollar on his first birthday in 1964 very ‘low' on an open asphalt of a 747 jet runway : pretty unusual, huh?

Then in '65 when he turns two years old he stacks a new 1965 Kennedy half on top of his firstly-placed 1964 Kennedy half which is now still ‘low' and will ‘always' be ‘low'est in his stack compared to the remaining '65 through '70 halves to be subsequently and sequentially stacked above the '64 half each year on his b-day etc....

Plus the adjective 'low' when referring to a 'low' ring sound rhymes with the word 'tone'. Visualize the interactivity of a ‘low'- toned '64 half initially placed ‘low' in the stack of '64 to '70 halves...

In this example the essence of linking the relationship between a one year old toddler attempting to correctly and sequentially stack each year on his birthday a growing tower of brand new and extremely shiny stacked silver Kennedy halves on a runway really sticks out in my mind and is very simple to recall the association.

If one attempts to only remember that 1964 is a smaller number than 1965 â€" 1970, the visual, 3D, and spatial comparative effects of a 1964 half being stacked first and 'lowest' by a toddler on his birthday are completely lost and can potentially lead to an incorrect remembrance.

The problem with remembering the brute numbers only without an associative panorama is that one may incorrectly postulate that '64 halves have 'higher' silver content producing a naturally higher ring tone: oops, an incorrect assumption never supported by a confirming optical relationship.

Can anyone ever forget about this goofy-looking red-faced nerd working on computer racks while designing web sites at Go Daddy while making out with that young woman?

For those of us not born with a photographic memory always use the craziest and most unlikely scenarios to connect up those dangling brain neurons and become a pro when remembering someone's name(THE MOST IMPORTANT WORD TO ANYONE, PERIOD), for example, or regurgitating vocally the multitude of impressive coin facts both quickly and accurately when required: coins shows or especially at auctions to avoid being taken to the cleaners etc...

In summary, I hope everyone finds this information useful not only for remembering that 1964 Kennedy halves have the lowest ring tone (compared to the higher tones of '65 â€" '70 halves) but for use in everyday endeavors going forward for the pursuit of an overall improved life.

fyi,
mdpmedia