1966 SMS Kennedy Half Dollar - Grade Thoughts Please

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kevcoins Valued Member United States 116 Posts	Posted 05/17/2018 11:53 pm Hello CCF, Your grade thoughts are appreciated. Thanks, Report this Post to the Staff

Crazyb0 Rest in Peace 10197 Posts	Posted 05/18/2018 01:19 am Oh man, what you use to clean that thing? Steel Wool? Yeech! The obverse is completely trashed, coin is really an ungradeable mess now, sorry. The reverse is OK, would pull a fair SP-64 at least, but those scratches and roughnesses in the fields would put it in a body bag from a TPG. it would be a details coin. Looking closer at the reverse, either that's bad pix or crap at 11 and 1-5, Danger Will Robinson! Edited by Crazyb0 05/18/2018 01:24 am Report this Post to the Staff
T-BOP Rest in Peace United States 18456 Posts	Posted 05/18/2018 07:50 am Sorry , I can't grade this coin . Scratched to smithereens . Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 05/18/2018 10:31 am Report this Post to the Staff
SilverDollar2017 Pillar of the Community United States 8715 Posts	Posted 05/18/2018 11:07 am SP-60 Report this Post to the Staff
mikem007 Valued Member United States 318 Posts	Posted 05/19/2018 08:59 am Mint sets often had horrible coins from the start. I always wondered what the mints were thinking when they dropped these coins into plastic. Most of the Kennedy halfs I yanked from mint sets are not worth grading. Your coin doesn't look like it was cleaned. It looks exactly like the ones I have. My guess would be these marks are caused at the mint when they are tossed into large bags or barrels, dumped, shipped, slid across tables before some low paid worker placed them into the mint set packaging. Report this Post to the Staff
mikem007 Valued Member United States 318 Posts	Posted 05/19/2018 09:06 am I just saw this 67 SMS half in another thread. This is what I would expect an SMS Kennedy half to look like. http://goccf.com/t/319171 Of the SMS sets I broke apart, the 66 and 67 tended to be nicer than the 65. Report this Post to the Staff
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