I have been waiting on this "totally" "completely" "awesome" "incredible" book for over a year.

Greetings Collectors,

About all I can say is this book will tell you everything you need to know about the Franklin & Kennedy half series. To borrow the quote on the back of this "hard cover" beauty from one of the "high priest's" of coin collecting, Q. David Bowers, where he says: "Between these two covers is just about everything you wanted to know, and more than you ever imagined existed". And he's not telling the "half" of it, no pun intended.

There are total pops, values, scarcity figures, along with crisp photos on "EVERY" half dollar minted between 1948 & 2010. The example photo for each date & mint are of the "nicest looking" and "highest graded" half dollar of that particular date/mint in "captivity". If you love the Kennedy and/or Franklin half series, you "have" to have this book. Period. There are pages of the most awesome color pics of the finest halves from both of these half dollar series. There are coins that were sent into Rick so they could be professionally photographed & used as examples in this book. And from those that I saw, it's unbelievable to me there are coins with that many colors. They almost look as though they were artificially toned, they are that nice. All of these for the most part came from mint sets and the colors they turned were because of the cardboard those mint sets were shipped & stored in. Primarily the result of the "acids" in the paper cardboard of the day. Other reasons include the coin albums collectors used for display and/or storage. The color pics include Kennedy's as well, and there are several of those halves from 1964-2010 that are simply gorgeous. Rick Tomaska is "THE AUTHORITY" on mid 20th century to present proof coinage (along with being the most knowledgeable on the pf. & ms Franklin half) and this has everything on every proof Kennedy & Franklin half that exists on the planet, (MS also) and for a limited time, there are copies left of the "like this", special limited edition hard cover which is signed and dated & addressed to the 1st 2000 buyers. Total price with S&H for this one is less than $65. Whitman Publishers don't usually do "hard backs" but they did so on 2000 of these. If by the time you order, they are gone, you can get the same thing in "soft back" for a few dollars cheaper.

Actually any half dollar fan of "ANY" series will get a treasure trove of knowledge that would be impossible to find elsewhere unless you did thousands & thousands of hours of research. And even then, I don't think you could come close to having half of what this 273 page book has to offer. I AM STOKED"!!! You will be too!

I think what I like most about this book besides what was just mentioned, is that it will disclose just how rare and how few most of these Franklin half coins really are. A truly superb piece of numismatic literature.

Happy Collecting!

WKF

Silver to gold ratio a little while ago was an "odd 45" to 1