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Pillar of the Community
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Can you tell the relative age (date range) of a Kennedy half by looking at the edge?  *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum.  *** |
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Pillar of the Community
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Clad with copper showing is 1971 or later.
Quick fact - the only US coin minted in five distinct compositions
90% silver (1964)
40% silver (1965-1970)
Copper-Nickel clad (1971-date)
99.9% silver (after the mint changed over in 2019)
0.9999 fine Gold version (2014)
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Quick fact - the only US coin minted in five distinct compositions  I have four of the five. Guess which one I lack.  |
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Great info Burton, thanks for sharing that tidbit. Quote:
Guess which one I lack. I don't suppose it's the Cu-Ni clad?  |
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Quote:I don't suppose it's the Cu-Ni clad? As nice as it would be, that would also mean I did not have a complete set, which I prefer to having gold.  |
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Quote:I have four of the five. Guess which one I lack. Umm, the Copper-Nickel clad (1971-date) one?  However, in the case I'm wrong on my guess, you can get one from ebay (cheap) ebay item number: 236427565971 |
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Take my money! |
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Pillar of the Community
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That's what I was thinking... until I was going through some rolls of 1960's 40% that I was thinking about selling. Then I flipped some to gauge the condition and found the one whose edge I pictured in this thread.   Fluke or common? Error or variety? Just wondering.. I'm sure somebody among us knows. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Over the years I have seen this copper looking edge on some 40% coins with original luster. Most, of course, are darker looking and a darb color. My GUESS is the copper dulled with age so most of them we see is the darker stripe?
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Pillar of the Community
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The 1965-1970 40% silver halves are clad. Some will show the 79% copper/21% silver core more than others (outer layers 80% Silver 20% Copper).
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Pillar of the Community
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I've seen 40% that show no signs of copper on the edge, bright shiny white halves with bright orange copper showing and some with very dark copper showing. When I used to roll search halves I would occasionally run across another roll searchers dump who would occasionally miss some 40 % because the edges looked almost identical to copper/nickel clad.
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Pillar of the Community
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Just goes to show you, if you're roll hunting for silver, don't just look at edges and reject the coins without looking at the dates-you might miss some of those 40% Ag coins. At the time of this post, you might be rejecting ~$6.50 worth of silver.
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Just goes to show you, if you're roll hunting for silver, don't just look at edges and reject the coins without looking at the dates  |
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Even when hunting for silver, I'm always looking to improve my sets and looking for varieties so I put my eyes on the years as well. I've never found anything that though. I have missed a couple that were dirty and ended up being 40% though.
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Pillar of the Community
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Looked like a '69 to me. The '68 is more square, but '69 would never have been my first guess because of the color. I'd have found the coin though because I look harder at every coin with mint state edges.
I don't know much about Kennedy edges but I bet there's someone out there that can recognize far more than I can.
The silver tones different colors and it's not unusual for mint state coins to tone or tarnish only on the edges as they have spent much of their lives in rolls.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Minted in 1975-1976 as a Bicentennial commemorative as well.
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Posted 11/04/2025 11:35 am
