Shiny JFK

Whats weird is the red and oranges dont even appear in real life, I dont see them. And I assume its P because its missing a mint mark.

Well it looks like water spots but not sure. There are some spots that don't show up if you don't hold the coin right so it does show up. There is spots that show up in the right light.

Sometimes when they are cleaned they get real shiny, because the microscopic "ridges" are destroyed. I have a 68 kennedy that is very shiny, mirror like, I 'spect thats what happened.

Dipped? Dipping in chroming solution or something?

The other thing is that huge numbers of (otherwise non coin collecting) people collect half dollars. They seem to be under the delusion that they're rare. They do the same thing with bicentennial quarters, 2 dollar bills, silver certificates, and God knows what else.

I'm sure that coin collectors 100 years from now will have no problem assembling collections of nice Kennedy half dollars because of this.

By the way, the reason there are so many uncirculated late 19th century silver dollars is due to the fact that banks used to be required to keep them in their reserves. Every now and then a bank will find a wooden cart of silver dollars untouched since 1890 in their basement.