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The holder was flipped over for the second picture. These are fairly "common" in the '88 mint set affecting about every 140th Philly half. Some are fully 180 degree rotation. I would think it wouldn't be hatrd top get 4- or 50 dollars for one like this but you might want to check ebay. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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CoinMeister, Cladking knows his clads, that's why he's the king. Cladking, don't mention it. Needless to say from now on I'm going to be taking a second look at the '88s I find in my rolls...
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Nice find.I would think that the newer the coin is, the less likely of you finding one rotated like that.Just a guess though.
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Quote:These are fairly "common" in the '88 mint set affecting about every 140th Philly half. Some are fully 180 degree rotation. I would think it wouldn't be hatrd top get 4- or 50 dollars for one like this but you might want to check ebay. Did you mean "40" or 50 dollars? I did an ebay search with the words Kennedy half Rotated. There were no results in current listings and only 1 result in the ended listings It is a 1982 but it is not much of a rotated reverse (see link). Maybe the 1988 with a 60% rotated reverse is not all that common. http://cgi.ebay.com/1982-KENNEDY-HA...em3efedc0f5a |
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Yes, forty or fifty dollars.
I believe that's 30% rotation unless you want to measure from the opposite direction then it's 150%. Since the reverse picture is upside down you have to use a new reference to gauge the rotation.
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I believe that's 30% rotation unless you want to measure from the opposite direction then it's 150%. Since the reverse picture is upside down you have to use a new reference to gauge the rotation.
The reverse picture is not upside down. That Eagle should be straight up when the coin is flipped over. Instead, the Eagle is rotated about 60% CCW. If it were another 30% CCW, it would be at a 90% angle. |
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The reverse picture is not upside down. That Eagle should be straight up when the coin is flipped over. Instead, the Eagle is rotated about 60% CCW. If it were another 30% CCW, it would be at a 90% angle. Note the missing staple is on the top of the holder on the first picture and the bottom on the second. This means the holder was flipped top for bottom for the second picture so the coin should be right side up. Since it is off about 30 degrees I believe this is defined as a 30 degree rotation. Am I missing something here? Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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It's quite likely that all the rotated reverse '88-P half dollars went into mint sets so we can get a very good estimate of the mintage on these. Figure about 12,000. Probably about 4,000 have been lost to fire and flood and the like and another 1,000 have been cut from the packaging and sp[ent or otherwise degraded. I'd guess there are about 7,000 pristine examples (though these don't come very nice) and about 600 sitting in bank rolls.
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inserting the image into AutoCAD, I get this..  |
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Good call 28.Looks like a legit number to me.
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Note the missing staple is on the top of the holder on the first picture and the bottom on the second. This means the holder was flipped top for bottom for the second picture so the coin should be right side up. Since it is off about 30 degrees I believe this is defined as a 30 degree rotation.
Am I missing something here?
Here's what a JFK looks like without a rotated reverse. Note the staple placement when it is flipped "top for bottom for the second picture."   Here is the 1988 JFK. The reverse is rotated 60% counter clockwise. |
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D'oh.
You guys are right of course. It's 60 degrees (+).
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D'oh.
You guys are right of course. It's 60 degrees (+).
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You have been dethroned! I was just a pretender anyway and I don't give up that easy. ;) That's a very very tough '65 half. I've looked at literally thousands of these set and have never found one. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Posted 05/01/2010 11:59 am
Nice find. I guess I'm gonna hafto check all my halves from now on. BIG PROBLEM- my area banks never have any!
