JFK Half Dollar Roll Hunters: Silver, Proofs And Other Finds

The rims help somewhat, but the P is the most solid confirmation.

Roll find Clad proof Kennedys can sometimes be hard to detect, I have found a few that have seen extensive circulation and I only caught because of an S mint mark. These coins are even more indistinguisable as a proof than than the commemorative above. I do think the mint dumped some excess or imperfect proofs into circulation in addition to collector spends and dealer dumps of damaged proof coins that could not be sold to collectors.

I'm behind with my posting, I'm going through fewer boxes now, 4 per week, I need to find another branch or two willing to order, two of branches stopped ordering boxes for me a couple months back, became too much of an issue for them, apparently. Anyway, past 5 weeks, 4 boxes each week, 20 boxes total, I found (2) 90% Kennedy's and (20) 40%. Overall good numbers, I had a few weeks when I was searching 10 - 14 boxes per week and found zero or one silver. Also found (1) clad proof and(1) 87-P and (1) 87-D, TRUE NIFC's. I'm convinced the mint released many NIFC's 2002 - 2021, either unsold or defective.

Thought I would share these photos, the first photo is of an ender coin, would swear it was a silver but it was a clad 1990. Also has a weird stamp on the eagle. The other photo is of the edges of a few clad coins I found over the past few months, they look VERY silver on the edges. One of the coins was a clad bicentential. I wonder if these coins were purposely processed to look like silver? I do find some 1971, 1972, and 1974 halves that sorta look silver on the edge but I'm usually pessimistic until I check the dates. I have a few coins that were spray painted silver or chrome dipped but I can usually tell by the edges that they are not silver and have been tampered with.

Have not beem hunting much last few weeks. Did make a few stops on Tuesday got a few.

Nice quartet!


Fantastic!

Awesome Scores, nice to see silver still being found. I cracked 4boxes this week and got totally Skunked. I won't be searching any more halves until January 2023. Have to take care of somethings on the home front. Good luck Everyone looking forward to your posts.

Fantastic!