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1964 Kennedy Half Dollar With 3 Unusual Marks On JFK Neck

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Hello I'm Gene from Maryland USA. I've recently rediscovered my love for coins. I started collecting coins when I was a child. I received a bicentennial proof set along with 1905 Filipino peso as a gift from my uncle. I stopped collecting at age 19 and now 50 years old back at it and will pick up where I left off. I still have every coin from my childhood but because I had the help of my uncle who traveled the world collecting coins, my collection doesn't look like a child from 80s put it together.

Anyway, I joined this forum because I really wanted to comment a post I read from a user named Thump or Thump1 or a variation of it. I can't find that person or their original post now. The post was about a 1964 Kennedy half dollar that had 3 unusual marks on JFK neck close to his chin I believe. All replies that I saw told the original poster that the marks came from someone heavily cleaning his coin and that it become a POS only worth the silver content. While the coin looks like it as in fact been heavily scrubbed, I think the replies were quick to dismiss any possibility of the poster's coin being a special one. I wanted to show the original poster as well has the commenters that I have the same coin with the same error in different spot but also on JFKs neck. Can somome help me find this person Thump please. I'll put a Pic of mine in this post.
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These look like Reed Marks
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to the Community!

Your reply was split into its own topic and moved to the appropriate forum for the proper attention.
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I agree, Reed Marks.

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Yes, looks to be a reeding hit.
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Click => Reed Marks
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to the CCF.
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To CCF! I agree, Reed Marks.
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There has never been a member with the name Thump or Thump 1 and I can't find any name close to it.
Also those Reeding Marks are considered damage, not an error.
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We do (or did) have a member named Thump1, and they posted a thread about a damaged 1964 half dollar here: https://goccf.com/t/457155

Thump1 was automatically locked out of the forum when they tried to post a swearword-filled rant deriding the answers they were getting about their "errors" and promising to make everyone apologize once they were proven right, so there's no way to contact them now, and frankly they sound like the kind of angry, stubborn person you don't really want to get to know better.

The marks on your coin are Reed Marks, caused by another coin hitting or squeezing onto your coin at an angle. It is not considered an error, as Reed Marks can happen outside of the mint. Large heavy coins like half dollars are more likely to give each other Reed Marks than smaller coins, because a larger coin has more mass and inertia and so tends to do more damage.
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