After the first designs were struck, Jackie and Robert, the late president’s brother, opined that the president’s hair on the portrait was overdone and asked for this to be changed. As a result, there are two circulation varieties of the 1964 half dollar—the original one with JFK’s ...
1973 is the 10th consecutive year the US Mint had printed the Kennedy half dollar. Producing this coin beganin early 1964, mere months after President J.F. Kennedy was shot. Switching to Kennedy for the 50-cent coin was done to commemorate the late POTUS and it’s been going on for dec...
it is helpful to know the silver content for 50 cent coins minted after 1891. Every half dollar minted for the years 1892 to 1964 has .361 ounces of pure silver in it. So you can take the price of silver per ounce and multiple it by .361 to get the “melt” value ...
Welcome to Coinflation and everything you need to know about the 1965-1970 Silver John F. Kennedy Half Dollar. This site measures the pure metal value or current melt value of U.S. circulating and pre-1965 silver coins. Values for the 1964 JFK half doll
Where is the mint mark on a 1966 Kennedy half dollar? The 1966 half dollars belong to the so-called ”anonymous coin” era that began in 1964. Between 1964 and 1970 the government temporarily halted the production of proof coins for collectors and stopped using mintmarks. The goal of this...