1964 Kennedy Half Dollar SMS Special Strike

All 1964 SMS halves were found in the estate of a former mint director. I believe they were all subsequently slabbed after the initial sale in the late 80s and none were ever released through public channels. You will not find it in circulation or in a dealers silver junk box.

Be careful what you read on those "get rich from pocket change" sites. Most are just click bait and don't tell you the whole story.

to the CCF!

to the CCF

Business strike.

How about the line that is in the center of the 4 that almost makes a cross that I see in the 2 sms examples and in my coin but I have not seen the same thing in the business strike examples I have viewed

As previously stated, these came from the estate of a former mint director and were never released to the public.

Should you disagree, you can always send it to a TPG for authentication. Short of having it in a slab, there is no way you'll ever be able to prove that it's an SMS.

@MisterGarrett: I will not give you the history of the SMS essay of the Mint, also same of the declaration from EVA regarding those essays in front of the congress because I already put here on the forum. You look at some YouTube video which no one are 100% accurate. I give you here the photos of the markers parts of the Observe. Do not forgot that also the Reverse has some which are characteristic just for this strike of approx.. 50 sets which no one made the way in the wild.

Those sets was capsulated in special plastic kind and from 50sets, 49 are already accounting. The last one not declared yet is already supposed where it is.

Here the photos of authentic SMS 50 cent 1964. You can compare with your coin to see the big differences.