Hello all you coin aficionados out there and welcome to the DCCoin World
international coin Channel. As many of you know some of the images on our US coinage comes
from tragedy. In 1945 President Roosevelt died and in 1946 they came out with the
Roosevelt dime. Well, the same thing happened with the half-dollar in 1963-1964
In 1963 in November President John F Kennedy was assassinated at that time
we had a Benjamin Franklin half-dollar the Franklin half which they
had started minting in 1948 but the last mintage of that coin was in 1963 because of
the death of President John F Kennedy so they minted a huge number of these
Franklin halves in 1963 and then they rushed to get out what they
would call later the Kennedy half so this is the last
year of this the Franklin half and there with the bell on the back and then came
very quickly in 1964 the Kennedy Half Dollar coin with President John F Kennedy who had
just been assassinated a few months before on the front of the half. Now, this
is a design by Gilroy Roberts. I mean an engraving by Gilroy Roberts and you
can see down here it says G R now some people say this looks very similar to a
hammer and sickle but it is not it's a big G with an R through it and it's
Gilroy Roberts. Interestingly enough Gilroy Roberts also helped design the
Benjamin Franklin half-dollar because John R SInnock who JRS down here who
designed engraved the Franklin half-dollar died before it was done so
Gilroy Roberts came in and finished up that engraving
And so he not only helped design the Franklin but he also sixteen years later
engraved the Kennedy half. The top of it says Liberty across here it says In
God We Trust 1964 this is a silver coin so in 1964 this coin was made and it was
90% silver so if you're looking for the Kennedy half this is the one to get in
terms of value and it's also the one to get in terms of this was the first year
that they minted it (this is a little bit better light) this we can do that you
can see that it has a reeded edge and when we flip it over it's a big coin and
it's got a lot of stuff on it this coin isn't probably I don't know it's it's
much better than very good condition it's probably almost a very fine
condition, the silver value alone is almost six dollars and the
value of this coin there's a lot of mouths there but this coin still sells
for seven to ten dollars in this condition across the top it says United
States of America here we can see right above the Eagles head it says E
Pluribus Unum there just happened to be 13 stars here and 50 around the outside
well there's nine plus four if you see how they did that so one two three four
five six seven eight nine here and then four down here so we have the the
original 13 colonies stars here but some of them kind of fell down next to the
eagle's head we see a snake coming out of the beak of the eagle we see just
finely engraved feathers these lines going up around the outside there are 50
stars for the 50 states because by 1964 there were 50 States because Alaska and
Hawaii came in in 59 and 60 and so we had all 50 states by this time says half-dollar
at the bottom in letters there are no half dollar coins that say 50 cents
them or that have the 1/2 on them they all say HALF DOLLAR. If we look down
here we see the Eagle is holding olive branches in this side holding arrows on
this side and the the famous shield across the chest of the eagle if there
is a mint mark it will be down here but there is not a mint mark on this coin
which means it was made in Philadelphia Oh wait a second!
For this one they made
two hundred and seventy seven point two five million of these so they made a
huge number of them there was a denver mint mark a D and that denver mint mark
they made a hundred and fifty-six million so this coin is not a rare coin
in any manner it is a collectible coin because it has the silver in it but also
because of its the first Kennedy coin it's a silver kennedy coin it's a 1964 I
don't know if I mentioned the e pluribus unum across the top in the banner above
the eagle's head so this coin you can probably you can probably spend seven to
ten dollars on this coin in this condition even though it's not as old as
some of the other coins it's a very collectible coin that's all we have
today oh let me say what else is in it I don't want to skip that part it's not
all silver it also has 10% copper in it weighs
twelve point five grams thirty point six one millimeters in diameter and two
point one five millimeters in thickness it is still currency in United States of
America hasn't been demonetized or anything but you don't want to spend
this one you want to keep it because it's worth almost twenty times his face
value have a great day from a DC coin World International Coin Channel
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