1964 KENNEDY SILVER HALF DOLLAR * MS63 NGC CERTIFIED * 90% SILVER UNCIRCULATED

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*************************** *** KENNEDY SILVER HALF DOLLAR *** Half Dollar Uncirculated *************************** Thank you for shopping at UNITED STATES COIN RESERVE YOU ARE LOOKING AT: 1964 ( P) KEN NEDY Silver Half D ollar MS63 NGC CERTIFIED Frosty W hite Luster BEAUTIFUL DETAILS! professionally sealed case *************************** *** KENNEDY SILVER HALF DOLLAR *** Half Dollar Uncirculated *************************** ITEM DETAILS 1964 (P) KEN NEDY SILVER HALF DOLLAR MS63 NGC CERTIFIE D Category: Kennedy Half Dollars (1964-Date) Mint: Philadelphia Mintage: 273,304,004 Catalog: KM-202 Obverse Designer: Gilroy Roberts Reverse Designer: Frank Gasparro Composition: Silver Fineness: 0.9000 Weight: 12.5000g ASW: 0.3617oz Melt Value: $10.86 (12/29/2012) Diameter: 30.6mm Edge: Reeded This coin is guaranteed to be in MS63 condition in it's original NGC protective case. ABOUT THE KENNEDY HALF DOLLAR It is said that every American who was alive in 1963 remembers exactly what he or she was doing at the moment they heard the news of President Kennedy being shot. Then, less than an hour later, came the awful report that he had died. It’s hard for anyone who was not a witness to those sad days to fully comprehend the sense of loss which overtook the nation. This grief found expression in the renaming of many civic structures, roadways and even geographical features in honor of the slain leader. Of all these memorials, however, the United States half dollar bearing Kennedy’s familiar likeness will almost certainly survive the longest, since coins, being nearly indestructible, have a long track record as the most durable witnesses to history. The story of the Kennedy half dollar’s 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.” This work was undertaken immediately, Gilroy Roberts sculpting the portrait obverse, while his longtime Assistant Engraver, Frank Gasparro, prepared the reverse model bearing the presidential seal. Both were amply experienced in these tasks. Along with the sculpting of various mint medals, Roberts had prepared the models of John R. Sinnock’s design for the Benjamin Franklin half dollar of 1948, following Sinnock’s death the previous year. Gasparro too was a veteran of numerous medal designs, and he had most recently created the new reverse which debuted on the Lincoln cent in 1959. For these two artists, time was of the essence, as the new year loomed ahead, and the Treasury Department did not want to issue any of the existing-type Franklin half dollars dated 1964. Complicating matters still further was a severe, nationwide shortage of all coins. Half dollars of one type or the other had to be ready for coining early in the new year to avert a worsening of this shortage. In the meantime, however, there was a legal hurdle to overcome: Under existing law, U. S. coin designs could not be changed more often than every 25 years; the Franklin half was then only 15 years old, and its replacement would quite literally require an act of Congress. Partisan disputes were largely set aside in recognition of the nation’s and the world’... read more

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