The 1967 Kennedy Half Silver Dollar is the last minted silver year in this coin series from 1965 to 1970.
The 1967 Kennedy Half Dollar has the largest mintage from all Uncirculated Kennedy Half Dollars. With a fineness of 0.9, this United States coin was minted as a business strike in 1967. This half dollar has mint errors, DDO and DDR and is a valuable piece of numismatic history that commemorates the legacy of JFK.
The image of President John F. Kennedy on the obverse side and bald eagle is on the reverse side.
"We choose to go to the Moon", was a speech title for a speech JFK delived at Rice University on September 12, 1962. This was during a short lived presidency which began in January 1961 and ended on November 22, 1963 with his assassination.
The aim was to bolster the low public support for his proposal to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade and bring him safely back to Earth. Over time support grew. At the time of the July 1969 moon landing, a first & last moon landing, support was high enough to keep the space program going apparently for another 40 years, until August 2011, but there were no more moon landings.
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The Legacy of the 1965–1967 No-Mintmark Era
The 1965–1967 coins are prized for their context and story. During a time when coin hoarding was driven by the rise in silver prices, these coins illustrate a unique historical moment when coinage policy pivoted in real time to meet economic pressures.
The Coinage Act of 1965
The removal of mint marks from U.S. coins between 1965 and 1967 was a calculated response to a financial and operational crisis of poor planning and logistics.
Among its provisions, the U.S. Mint began producing copper-nickel clad dimes and quarters in 1965 before removing silver from those denominations altogether. The silver content in half dollars was reduced from 90% to 40%, a transitional step toward eventually phasing silver out of circulating coins.
The Coinage Act of 1965 - was the legislative response to the growing crisis in U.S. coin circulation. Coins were sitting in mint warehouses because their silver value had increased so much. This Act was designed to stabilize the coin supply, lower production costs, and discourage speculative collecting.
The removal of mint marks from U.S. coins between 1965 and 1967 was a calculated response to a financial and operational crisis.
This is a rare 1967 Kennedy Silver Half Dollar with no mark and is a unique and valuable coin addition that will bolster any coin collection.