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Coin World has an article up saying all of the 2015 Kennedy halves will use the same 1964 high relief obverse as the 2014 silver 4 coin set and the 2014 2 coin clad set. All I have to say about that is 
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Its about time they did this. With the half being NIFC for the past 13 years, there's not good reason not to strike the coin in high relief. o wear and stacking issues, at least.
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Finally! The high relief design looks so much better!
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 Can't wait to get one! |
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Well that definitely adds a bit of distinction to the 2015s. Do you have a link to the article? I wonder if that means the high relief will be used for the foreseeable issues.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thank goodness. The Kennedy halves have been getting flatter and uglier for so terribly long. |
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The fact they are no longer made for circulation might have
been the driving factor behind this decision. Making fewer,
they might be able to afford the extra effort.
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This is great news! I hope they stick with it.
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Presumably this will apply for the Proofs as well. Now we'll get 2015-S Proofs that look like the 2014-P Proof in the silver four-coin Set. I would venture that the circulation-finish/Mint Set coins will still not look as nice as the coins in the high-relief 2014 two-coin Set, the fields on the latter are a cut above the circulation-finish/Mint Set coins |
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What is a "high relief" design? I keep seeing people posting about it for proof sets, but I'm not really sure what it means.
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Fox:
Some time in the 1990s, the mint took away most of the relief from
the coins, and went to very flat designs. This is easier on the mint
equipment and dies. Saves money.
The coins before this change, while higher relief than what we have
now, are really only "mid-relief". There have been "high relief" coins
in the past, that surpassed the common mid-relief coins...
Anyway, look at a pre-1990 half dollar right next to a post-1999 half
dollar, and you should see the change in relief. The earlier coin is
much more "3-D". This was not just halves either, it was all our coins.
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Aye, it was a real money saver for circulation strikes as the lower relief (flatter, less 3D design) greatly extended die life.
However, I've wondered why they kept the low relief for the collectible-only issues (since Halves have been NIFC for a long time now) which have very high seigniorage to begin with.
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I wonder if this announcement sticks in the crawl of everyone that purchased the 2014 sets. This isn't the first time the mint has baited the public with status of a special feature only to release subsequent issues with the exact same feature. As "cost effective" as the mint has been in the past, maybe we'll end up with a 2015 variety from repurposed dies.  Edited by CopperCastle
01/18/2015 01:17 am
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should be interesting to see how the coins look
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Posted 01/15/2015 5:10 pm
