1971 silver halk jfk? or is it fake

[d2arcing]

2x 40% and a 1971 silver rim... is it fake?

 

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[jim4silver]

Clank it against another clad and see if it sounds like silver.

Jim

 

[BIG61AL]

it's a long shot but this could be a genuine mint error [wrong planchett]....if it real it is worth much more that a regular silver coin

 

[Ju8vP3t]

Could be, but not probable, I've found clad-year Kennedys like that before, looking at 'em you'd think they're silver, I filed one a little and underneath was a copper sandwich.....What I want to find is a 1975 Kennedy , IF one even exists...

 

[d2arcing]

it is pure glossy rim no line marks... fake?

1946 walking weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Diver_Down]

it is pure glossy rim no line marks... fake?

1946 walking weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

The "line marks" are called a reeded edge. Many halves are so worn that the reeds wear off i.e. Casino Halves. It is possible that you have a "casino half" which had been chromed giving the illusion of a silver rim.

 

[enamel7]

it is pure glossy rim no line marks... fake?

1946 walking weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

The "line marks" are called a reeded edge. Many halves are so worn that the reeds wear off i.e. Casino Halves. It is possible that you have a "casino half" which had been chromed giving the illusion of a silver rim.

I think he may have been referring to the clad separation in the edge.

 

[mistergee]

sounds like some i have seen where going through machines distorts the "line" and only the silver coloring is visible.look at a bunch of halfs and you see none have the same amount of copper showing on the edge.this one may have had a very small "silver" edging that was worn by several passes through a slot machine. i do not believe it is a fake.

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

Could be, but not probable, I've found clad-year Kennedys like that before, looking at 'em you'd think they're silver, I filed one a little and underneath was a copper sandwich.....What I want to find is a 1975 Kennedy , IF one even exists...

They don't exist, they didn't make any dies for them. They coined bicentennials only during 1975 & 1976.

Another possible explanation for the silver look is it is probably plated, giving it that non-silver clad look.

 

[davew0710]

What I want to find is a 1975 Kennedy , IF one even exists...

I find them all the time.....and they all have the wrong date on them!!!

 

[Rich Hartford]

I've got a 1973 that is not plated, looks and sounds like silver. I brought it to one coin store where he looked at in under a microscope. He said it was silver and that I should send it off to some place in Colorado for some verification.
I then brought it to another coin store. This guy looked at it and said it probably was not silver. He gave it a spin and listened for the ring. Must have sounded like silver so he looked up the weight and then weighed it. The results were that it was not silver.
I still think that it is silver and am hanging on to it.

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

I've got a 1973 that is not plated, looks and sounds like silver. I brought it to one coin store where he looked at in under a microscope. He said it was silver and that I should send it off to some place in Colorado for some verification.
I then brought it to another coin store. This guy looked at it and said it probably was not silver. He gave it a spin and listened for the ring. Must have sounded like silver so he looked up the weight and then weighed it. The results were that it was not silver.
I still think that it is silver and am hanging on to it.

Hopefully it is, but odds are astronomical it is not. Get you one of those small digital scales and weigh it yourself, then compare that weight to what it should be for silver and for clads.