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Edited by Coconutjoe
02/14/2018 8:37 pm
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Here is slabbed G4. Uhmm ... $60 for a 1971 G4?! Am I missing something? |
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$60 for a 1971 G4?! Am I missing something? It's probably due to the fact that there are very few non-silver, slabbed, lowball Kennedy halves. Supply and demand. It might give a reason for someone to artificially create one. |
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All, Just found a 1996 Kennedy half on ebay that looks almost identical to the one I have.  |
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1. Could be from very, very worn out equipment at the Mint
2. Could be from a very bad counterfeiter with poor eyesight.
3. If a pocket piece, would have to have been an odd shaped pocket.
4. In other words I have no idea.
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Related to the 1922 no D. I found one in Junction City KS in a bank roll Auk. 2016 same as your example, some one is making those out there I bet. I think I still have it in some box somewhere. Where your at there's lots of 1960 D rpm cents and mega Denver examples of all denominations. Are you hitting the auctions in those little towns in NE KS? There's some good deals if you get the Grass and Grain weekly. Ah, my dear sweet Kansas, I don't miss the chiggers though. There are no chiggers in Oregon.
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Luvmycam
I am Not in KS...actually New York.
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I don't miss the chiggers though. There are no chiggers in Oregon. lol - as a Missouri boy now in CA, I can wholeheartedly agree! Quote:It's probably due to the fact that there are very few non-silver, slabbed, lowball Kennedy halves. Supply and demand. @coconutjoe - I just cant process this for some reason. So there are collectors out there who go for the lowest slabbed coins they can find? |
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I can't process it either Coronet1832. There must be half a dozen NGC details grading codes for stuff people do to deliberately make a coin look better, but deliberately making it more worn is somehow OK with the TPGs. Like I said earlier, I have a hard time believing there's a G4 1996 Kennedy that got there without help. To each their own I guess.
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Hey...with that knowledge anyone want to pay $60 for my severely wore 97'Kennedy?
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So there are collectors out there who go for the lowest slabbed coins they can find? Yes lowball collectors. They're generally most interested in series where the series didn't get a ton of use. Morgans are one of the more popular lowball series along with classic commemoratives. Quote:
but deliberately making it more worn is somehow OK with the TPGs That's not really true. Pocket pieces are just putting wear on something the same way that circulation does and takes a long time and a lot of effort to carry it everyday and never lose it ect. If you sand down a coin or they think you did a quick wear job in the rock tumbler they will give it a details grade for artificial wear |
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I can't see it as a pocket piece. As mentioned, the cupronickel holds up quite well. The tumbler/art project things got some legs, especially as it does look like someone did some tooling around JFK. I *will* throw my hat in the ring for a laundromat job: weeks/months tumbling inside the inner works of a commercial washer and then finally expelled.
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Thanks Billy,
I think it looks cool, added it to a flip and filed away.
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