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Valued Member
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So I was going through my coins, and putting them in Kointain holders as I just like that added layer of protection. Anyway, I got to my Kennedy halves and noticed two San Francisco mint halves. One is a silver clad, once is a clad proof. I looked in my Red Book and it shows a P, D, S (Silver Clad) and then under the proofs its shows an S and an S Silver Clad. Do I have this right? 1976-P 1976-D 1976-S (Silver Clad) And then there are two proofs? 1976-S Proof 1976-S Proof Silver Clad Is there also a 90% Silver Proof for this year too? I have both the Silver Clad and the Copper-Nickel Proof but a little confused on just how many halves there were that year. In reading the Red Book, under the normal circulation coins they list the P & D mints and then list the S mint separately under the proofs section. But they didnt do that with the 1976 Kennedy halves. Edited by StormStrikes
05/23/2011 5:22 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Three business strikes and two proofs for a total of five different Bicentennial halves. None were minted in 90% and the 40%ers were only available in the three coin Bicentennial Mint and Proof sets.
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Don't forget the 1975 dual date coins. There were P,D, and S clad proof for '75, and P,D, S clad proof, Silver proof, and silver uncurculated for '76. Total of 8 coins. The silver proofs and silver uncirculateds were released in 3-coin sets by themselves which included quarter, half dollar and Ike dollar. |
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Don't forget the 1975 dual date coins. All 1975 and 1976 Half Dollars use the 1776-1976 dual date. There is no way to distinguish which year it was minted (unless you pulled it from the mint or proof set yourself). For all practical purposes, they are the same. That is, there are only five coins, not eight. |
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Thank you for that information. The Red Book stated that many of the 76-S Silver clads were melted in 1982. Are there any known figures for how many were melted? Mach1, you had to go throw a wrench into it didnt ya, LOL. The Red Book doesn't even list a 1975 minting for the Kennedy's. How do I identify the 1975 issues? |
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Thanks jbuck. My confidence in Red Book was a little shaken there for a bit. |
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How do I identify the 1975 issues? As I said above, you do not. There is no such thing as a 1975 dated half dollar and no way to determine which year a dual dated half dollar was minted. Now, with Eisenhower dollars it is easy! All of the Variety 1 reverses were minted in 1975 and all of the Variety 2 reverses were minted in 1976. |
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My set of '76 Kennedys has 8 coins, because as you say, I cracked them out from '75 and '76 mint sets (proof and uncirculated) myself. So I know which ones are which. You can't tell a '75 from a '76 which I already knew, but I never thought of it as 5 coins instead on 8. Thanks for straightening me out!  When I cracked them all out, I was getting a bit testy keeping all the dual-date stuff between the quarters, halves and ikes straight. It would have been easier in the brain if they minted them for '76 only instead of 2 years!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I make the notation on the holder as a 1975 if I pull it out of a set.
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Pillar of the Community
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The 40% silver uncs were made to two different standards.
The mint initially believed that they were authorized to strike up to 11,000,000 of these and they were being run off at low speeds and high tonnage on the numismatic presses to order. Then at the last minute they thought that they were required to make this number and with so little time left they ran of about 7,000,000 coins on high speed presses and then dumped them into 55 gallon steel drums. It appears they moved these drums around by rolling them since the coins are so banged up.
The regular numismatic coins were sold in plastic packaging with a white stripe until about 1977 and then they began packaging up the awful sets in plastic without the stripes. These sold very poorly and many were melted since it was during the silver run up. Everything left was melted in about 1982.
The poor examples are hard to find now days.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Pillar of the Community
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There is one other version of this coin but it's likely no examples survive.
In 1975 the mint needed some of these proof sets for promotional purposes but San Francisco wasn't ready to make them. They ran off about a dozen in Philadelphia without a mintmark.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Are there any known figures for how many were melted? Surprisingly no! Even after all this time there are no accurate figures for what was struck, sold and melted. That's why in the RedBook you will see notations that the mintage figures for the 40% silver version are approximate. |
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There is no way to determine the quantity of any silver coin melted.
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