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

"mycrob, If you can get them to remove he 71 & 76 halves could you also try to have the 74's removed also....Waaay too many 1970's halves in the rolls I've searched lately."

Why would you want to remove abundant dates from circulation? Doesn't make any sense. I'm just glad these coins are still "around" though not widely used in circulation.

C'mon folks, I'm just KIDDING. I wouldn't want to see any of our beloved commons purged, and I have no way to do it, unless I start hoarding the commons for the next 50 years. Doubt I'll live that long, and probably there will still be so many commons left for everyone else to hoard too. My son likes the 76 Half best because it is different than all the rest.

Keep those half analysis coming in.

Here is an update. I've been through $555 in halves this month and here is a coin by coin break down. The numbers I had earlier in this thread are combined here. I'm two coins short because two rolls were short one coin apiece. The highlight is that in my last batch of halves, I had an amazing two solid rolls of 40% silver someone just deposited to the bank. My last batch also gave me my first two 79D coins of the entire year, both in terrible shape, but at least I can fill the holes in my sets.

The % of tot column shows the % of that date/mint mark in my batch. The column next to it called "Notes" shows whether this % is lower than expected, higher than expected or about right, based purely on mintage figures (I left out the mintage figures columns, so it would nicely fit). You can see that all the silver issues are lower than expected and this makes sense. There are many in the 1990s that are higher than expected, which I think also makes sense. 71-76 accounts for 44% in my batch, and this is pretty close to the expected (42%) based on numbers minted. The 80D is skewed to the high side because one roll I opened had about 10 coins of 80D in it, all in XF-BU condition.

I had a difficult time getting this to post properly, sorry.

In my next post I will combine these numbers with the ones provided by others in this thread.





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Grand Total 1108
Tot 40% sil 58
Tot 90% sil 1
71-76% of tot 44.13357401

mycorob,

Very interesting analysis! I'll keep an eye out for your proposed keys. I'm not sure if you're interested in continuing this, but I'll post my next batch here in case you want to add more numbers.

patrick

I love this thread and have been following it. For whatever it's worth, I've probably gone through 50 rolls of Kennedy's the past 2 years or so. I didn't keep track of exact numbers, but I have NEVER ran across the following years/mints:

78P, 79P, 80P, 81P, 84P, 84D, 89P, 90P, 91P, 92P, 94P, 95P AND 99P.

Of course, I'm not counting silver, 70D, 73's, and 87's. I guess it's obvious that I'm in "D" country and it just illustrates how frustrating it is to work with circulating coins and try to get both mint marks.

After seeing the last post I decided to order a box of halves myself. I've gone through a couple boxes of cents (working on a 59-07 roll set) and it will be nice to get something a bit less stressful on my eyes. My bank says they'll be in on Friday and, after this week, I'm going to need the break.

Is it really only Tuesday?

I'll report sometime over the weekend....

Wow, now that is a lot of halves to go through, PHEW! I'd love to be able to afford to do several thousand a week.

My one problem is that I keep too many of the nicer grade coins when I roll search, because I think I may get into putting sets together. But I never get to the set building.

My other problem is that I don't like taking the halves back to the bank. I try to do my part to get them back into active circulation. You can't just leave $50 in halves on the table for a restaurant bill, so I mainly use the halves for $10 transactions or less.