Kennedy Silver Half Dollars

Every true silver coin collector should know this story. I'm sure any one of us that were around in 1963 could tell you exactly what they were doing when President Kennedy was shot. The story of the Kennedy silver half dollars inception is perhaps best told in the words of then Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, the late Gilroy Roberts:"Shortly after the tragedy of President Kennedy's death, November 22, 1963, Miss Eva Adams, the Director of the Mint, telephoned me at the Philadelphia Mint and explained that serious consideration was being given to placing President Kennedy's portrait on a new design U.S. silver coin and that the quarter dollar, half dollar or the one dollar were under discussion. "A day or so later, about November 27, Miss Adams called again and informed me that the half dollar had been chosen for the new design, that Mrs. Kennedy did not want to replace Washington's portrait on the quarter dollar. Also it had been decided to use the profile portrait that appears on our Mint list medal for President Kennedy and the President's Seal that has been used on the reverse of this and other Mint medals." Thus the beginning of a mad collecting frenzy.
There are no rare date/mint combination's in the Kennedy silver half dollars series, although some pieces saw limited distribution. Proofs were coined for collectors in 1964 at the Philadelphia Mint and since 1968 at the San Francisco Mint. So-called "special mint set" coins were offered in place of true proofs during 1965-67, and these are usually collected in conjunction with the proof sets. The 1970-D half dollars were struck only to fill that year's orders for mint sets, pending the change to copper-nickel coinage; the silver-clad, bicentennial halves were likewise coined only for collectors. In 1987, the Mint announced that no half dollars of that date would be issued for circulation, and this caused a surge in the number of mint sets ordered. Finally, since 1992, the Mint has offered proof sets of both the conventional copper-nickel coinage and ones in which the dime, quarter and half are .900 fine silver,

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