Kenneday Half Dollars: A: 1984-D / B: 1996-D

The 96 looks like a start of a Dryer Coin or one used in a mechanical machine(vending/slot) and would be w/in tolerance of 11.3g. The 84 may be a bit underweight, a thin rolled copper core perhaps, the details do appear "mushy" like a thinned planchet may show. Doubt if counterfeit, would cost more to produce one than worth!...take a blade and score in between the reeding. Wee if there is a copper core inside.

A closer view show the reverse had been altered:

Glad to help. Yours is a Peso correct (hard to see in the pic)?




The glass will not ruin it. I supposed eventually the rim will show wear - but it would take a lot of using the coin. I bought an aluminum bang ring, I think, for 2.00 on ebay years ago.

Now have some fun. Put the empty shell in your hand, OBV up, over the other coin. Explain to someone the odd coin they might not recognize is a peso/British penny. Tell a person you can make one of them disappear without touching them.

Ask that person to hold out their hand, and while moving the half onto the top of the other coin, pick them up quickly, press them together, place them in the other person's hand, and quickly close their hand into a fist

Do whatever eye candy motions you want and then tell them to open their hand to give you the peso.

Even stoic people tend to give a very puzzled reaction when they find only the half.

Better yet, get a duplicate of the peso/British penny and pull it out of your shirt pocket.