Comments on: President John F. Kennedy Commemorative Coin Act Seeks 2020 Silver Dollars

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:54:26 +0000

@NW Robert: But it’s not a half dollar, so not for me. I wish that they had made the kennedy half out if silver that was in the apollo set. I suppose they got the silver price anyways so the Mint doesn’t care.
If they wanted to do some novel they could have proposed a platinum kennedy half dollar instead of this
And the 26 grams has me puzzled?

By: Robert Lewis

Robert Lewis — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 21:52:19 +0000

The JFK Halves without a doubt is the most popular coin on the planet. The mint engravers continue to deflate this coin by adding surcharges gimmicks cheap clad coins which I refuse to buy. I collect rare coins and the metals that go into making the coin is no doubt very important. I noticed that the mint decided to make a JFK halves in low mintage that was laughable, no kidding oh and limited production to almost none per person. Well they can have their low mintage junk coin made of copper and nickel. I collect rare coins and this includes the metal. Silver Gold Copper mix white gold not junkie nickel and try and pass it on as valuable because the mint decided to make a few of these junk pieces. I will never cheapen my coins value by someone at the US MINT tries to manipulate the price by a low mintage no precious metal and frankley a pieces of junk worth nothing. Setting the prices of coins is only hard because of greedy so called swamp meet coin . Oh and lets not forget the grading experts who know everything about coins and because of their unskilled and untrained eyes drive the prices up by using a 70 point scale. WHAT? These new people wanting to start collecting think that all their coins need to be sent out and graded. I personally am older than these grading companies. I love collecting coins and enjoy teaching the hobby. I have more to say and because I am a radical I love truth. My coins grade out at MS100. No more 70

By: Joe Brown

Joe Brown — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:47:58 +0000

It should be Jack & his sisters and bothers, Mother Rose., She was a saint in her own right. Lets face it every body & I mean every body,weather you amitt it or not. I would love to have 1/16 of your strength. A true woman, she has a big heart of Love. She knows everything is in Gods Hands. You screw up, & know what your do,ing . I do not care who you think you are. You will pay big coin, if you know what I mean. If you do not know what I mean there still time. God Bless Rose.

HAS THERE OWN SHOT COMINGS, big or small. You figure where that go*s. I did not do that on purpose.

By: Seth Riesling

Seth Riesling — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:24:37 +0000

Rodney Moore –

The 26.73 grams weight of silver dollars goes back to 1840 on the Seated Liberty silver dollars & all 90% silver dollar coins since then except the Trade Dollars which weighed 27.22 grams meant for use in China to compete with the silver coins of Mexico that weighed more. All Morgan & Peace silver dollars weigh 26.73 grams & all commemorative silver dollars since 1983 weigh 26.73 grams also.

-NumisDudeTx

By: Tinto

Tinto — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:56:05 +0000

At least the Mint has to go and get new designs but knowing them they might just try to push the current design (laziness at work) …. if the law is passed.

By: RODNEY MOORE

RODNEY MOORE — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:27:22 +0000

This sounds like an odd coin to me and one of the main things that I collect is kennedy halves. As other people have said, why now? Plus, that is an odd weight. I could not figure out if the silver content is going to be 26.73 grams or if the coin is going to weigh 26.73 grams total. That’s peculiar because if my math is right, a one troy ounce coin weighs 31.1 grams and if it is 90% silver it would have 27.99 grams of silver in it. So where in the world did they come up with 26.73 grams? Maybe that’s a common weight for some coins and I just don’t know it?

The JFK half is my favorite coin and JFK doesn’t look right on coins other than the design for the half. The JFK golden dollar looked odd to me, so I wonder what kind of design they will use? If they stick with the half dollar’s design then that would be kind cool to have a bigger version of it. I might not even buy the coin unless it comes in a set with the half dollar though?

@NW Robert: I’m slipping, I’m just now seeing this article.

By: A Bob

A Bob — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:19:42 +0000

I would buy one. Of course they will produce special sets with the half dollar as well.

By: joera

joera — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:15:58 +0000

A Kennedy silver dollar might be good. But yea, why now?

By: jim

jim — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 06:53:19 +0000

JFK was a democrat so Trump probably won’t sign the bill. So not to worry.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 03:34:14 +0000

We already have a half dollar coin & the 2014 coin. Do we really need another JFK coin?