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Edited by vermontensium
05/18/2009 11:05 pm
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I read somewhere this was a faked error. It may have been a CONECA newsletter. Pretty interesting story and I'm sorry I don't have the reference. Maybe someone else can link it here.
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It's interesting how JFK's profile aligns perfectly with that of Balboa.
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I was thinking about this error last night and several red flags went up. First, what is a 1971 Kennedy half dollar doing thrown in the hopper as the seller states  And, as wd1040 stated, the profiles align almost perfect. I was skeptical of this coin when I first saw it, just thought it was interesting and I'd post it. The seller runs a shop with 25 years experience and ha 100% feedback swcoin.ecrater.com
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I don't about the seller. ANACS slabbing it is what has me |
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Yeah but is the slab legit? If it is not, I don't believe ANACS will admit to that. Can you imagine what it would do for their biz! Who knows?
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ANACS has apparently slabbed at least 3 of them, and NGC at least one. Scroll down: http://www.kennedyhalfdollar.com/er...-kennedy.htmANACS does not have serial number lookup their website, but if you were to call them and give them the serial number, they will probably give you the description of the coin. |
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Now I'm officially very curious about this. Heritage sold one in an NGC slab in 2006 (for $1725) http://coins.ha.com/common/view_ite...Lot_No=14370Normally heritage shows a picture of the entire slab, but unfortunately they don't for this coin. But certainly that slab was legit. Like you said in the thread title, interesting. |
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Well, it's probably real as in minted by mint machines, but probably created because a mint worker wanted to "experiment" with that extra half in his pocket. I think bring coins in and out of the mint as a building is illegal, but not moving production processes.
Still, he could also have used his hollow shoe to take a half in, take an error out.
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Errors are not human manipulated where varieties are considered to be. This error, if you can call it that, is highly unlikely, let me rephrase, not likely that this could not have had some kind of mint worker intervention. Just my opinion of course but I am with wd1040 that something happened here that would not make it a true error IMO.
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Hi,
They are fakes and they are a perfect example of why slabbers are often clueless when it comes to errors and die varieties.
Thanks,
Bill
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We might be able to call them real if someone can figure out a legitimate reason for a 1971 half dollar, let alone three of them, to be on the coining floor in Balena Switzerland which is where the 1982 Panama coins were struck. (The last year the US struck Panama coins was 1970.)
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Evidently the 1/2 Balboa dies were returned to Panama and enterprising individuals in that country used them to strike these double denomination "errors". They are real in the sense that genuine dies were used to strike them. In all other respects, they're bogus.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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