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Morning all. I consider myself new to the hobby, and come to the group with about 3yrs of searching. I took up the hobby shortly after I decided to retire. As a fan of history and investigating, I found it to be a natural fit. I was prompted to join the group this weekend after I delved into a shoe box of old coins that hadn't been touched for about 40 yrs. It has a good mix of Old coins, with both loose and hand rolled pennies. More wheat pennies than I'd ever seen personally, and so I was excited to start going through them. Day 1 was to sort through them, then get them divided into denominations and years. The box also had about 100 half dollars, most of the Kennedy style. As this was the smallest group, I started separating the silver from the Clad, all the while looking for the wrong planchet "money shot" coin. Though I have a scale, I don't normally weigh all the coins, but as this was such a relatively old box, I figured I might get lucky. Well, what do know??? I popped on a 1969 Kennedy 1/2 $, and it read 9.38/9.39g. Though I consider myself new, and know I have tons to learn, I knew enough to recall the Kennedy from 65/70 should weigh 11.5g. After some research I was unable to locate anything about this particular error, but did learn about the "Thin Stock" error. The coin looks clean, and based on markings, I don't get a sense of Counterfeit. There is something I can’t figure. From what I can tell, I don't see any of the coloring on or around the rim/edge, to indicate the coin as clad. In fact, it appears silver all around. The coin thickness is slightly thinner that the other 69's, so outside of the "Thin Stock" theory, the only other idea I can surmise is, the coin might have been a foreign coin stock that ended up with a Kenny 1/2 on it. So....I’m looking for ideas and suggestions, outside of what I've noted, as to what may have caused this. I've never submitted any coin to anyone for attribution, or any other form of verification. Where do I go from here? Be gentle!!!
Thanks in Advance.
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Thanks in Advance.
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