Hey! Look at my Kennedies!!!!

[FC57coins]

With apologies to Greg who pretty much enticed me to post this, I've been getting into toned Kennedies for the past few years because it's just so damn expensive to get into any kind of toned coinage these days. For those toning afficionados with limited resources, I would suggest looking at silver circulation Kennedies from 1964-1970. They are relatively inexpensive, and you can often find very interesting permutations of a single coin. Below are ten different NGC and PCGS Kennedies graded either MS66 or MS65. The ones I love are the ones with bright colors and lots of luster - who doesn't right? Well - They're not bag toned Morgans, but for the money and enjoyment you can't beat them. Anyone on this side of the street collect them?

 

[michael]

 

frank let me ask you what is the rarest color/ color combination for a mintstate kennedy silver half 64-70hm

[FC57coins]

Hey Michael - My guess would be green and red - you see a lot of golds, blues, and purples. - But finding a green, red, or orange one is quite a feat - I've only surfaced one since I've been collecting these and it graded MS66* over here - Dummy me saw dollar signs and immediately sold it - oh well.

[TomB]

Toned Kennedy halves are a great arena to build a toned coin set. However, the truly nice coins still cost lots of money. Over the past seven years, I think most of the really nicely toned Kennedy halves that you will encounter on the bourse have actually been submitted by me.

 

I don't post images of my Kennedy halves on these boards because Greg always begs and whines to buy the coins from me whenever I do!

 

Here are two that I have kept, my apologies for the poor photography, the coins are massively overlit. The 1964-D was the end coin from an original roll bought off of ebay by another member who then kindly sold the coin to me while the 1967 is a near-twin to a coin Anaconda has on his site for some incredibly absurd price. Both are graded PCGS MS66.

[gmarguli]

OK people, I'll let you know that I actually don't hate the Kennedy half at all. It's a common misconception. The silver ones look rather nice (and some of the earlier clad). I've even got one in PF69DCAM that has a super heavy cameo and could make it into a PF70 slab if the grading gods were smiling at the time.

 

Also:

 

I once owned a significant portion of the highest graded silver Kennedys.

 

I ran ads in the coin papers offering to buy gem silver Kennedys.

 

It's the later date clad ones that look awful. And it is the Accented Hair ones that if I never hear about again, it'll be too soon.

 

Now, would anyone like to hear about my gem Ike set that I put together?

[TomB]

Michael, I would agree with Frank that reds and greens are the toughest colors on this series but would like to add that the really tough colors are crunchy reds and greens that might be similar to what you would find on a Morgan dollar, Washington quarter or classic commem.

 

The 1964-D that I have is fairly deep green in-hand, but it is not crunchy, while the 1967 has vivid reds, greens and oranges that are crunchy.

[FC57coins]

I don't post images of my Kennedy halves on these boards because Greg always begs and whines to buy the coins from me whenever I do!

 

 

Ouch Tom - that was good - Now I know who to bug when I get itchy to buy one or two of these things

 

Bytheway - the coins on my thread are all 1964P halves.

[TomB]

Please, I would love to hear about your gem Ike set Greg!

[gmarguli]

Please, I would love to hear about your gem Ike set Greg!

 

I will admit that in my younger days, I had an Ike set all PCGS graded. It was a complete set with all but maybe 1 or 2 of the coins grading a minimum of MS65. This was 15+ years ago. The clads were MS65 or better and all the silvers in MS67 or better (except the 1971-S which was MS66 as they had only graded one MS67 at the time).

 

These were all self-submitted coins that I searched for and anyone who knows clad Ikes knows that the MS65s of 15 years ago are MS66s and maybe MS67s today.

 

It was a nice set to build and I did it fairly fast. It would take a long time to complete this task today as so many of the gem clads are already in slabs.

 

When the prices for these coins moved up, the set went off to be sold.

[Bruceswar]

Those are some nice halves...

[LucyBop]

[gmarguli]

[Oldtrader3]

Like Greg I also still have a graded (MS65) silver Ike PCGS set that I bought many years ago. I had almost forgotten that I still had it.