Owner Comments:
1988 D Mintage. 12,000,096. 60th largest/Highest.
Ngc. 3 MS 68. Pop=<1%. 522 by Ngc NH.
Pcgs. 1 MS 68. Pop=<1%. 717 by Pcgs NH.
Rarity Total 4 MS 68. P=<1%. 1239 by both services.
Sheldon Rarity Scale-Expanded(SRS-E) R7, Prohibitively rare- one may be offered for sale once every few years.
Sheldon Rarity Scale(SRS) R7+, 4-6 known.
Universal Rarity Scale(URS) URS 4, 5-8 known.
Pcgs Rarity Scale Numerical(PRSN 9.7, 5-6 known.
Pcgs Rarity Scale Descriptive(PRSD Ultra rare, 9.0-9.9, 21-2 known
Tuff date to find in MS 68 with only 4 graded MS 68 by both services.
Registry points 2009. 1/23
Cert#. 6604447-009 MS 68
NGC List. NA. Pcgs. 4,000.00
TN**** Ngc Article ****. .Dancing with Dates, Part Six Posted on 3/17/2009
This month, David W. Lange wraps up his look at 20th-century date styles with a focus on the Kennedy half dollar series.
numeral 1 features a prominent serif at either side of its base and a downward slanting serif at upper left, this ending in a distinct point at both its top and bottom. This same configuration has remained to the present day, but with some minor modifications along the way. The bicentennial coins featured a slight curvature to the upper serif. In 1983 a new hub appeared, and henceforth the numeral 1 was noticeably thicker, while its lower serifs had obvious fillets to them. These serifs nearly disappeared beginning with the coinage of 1992. The upper serif regained its 1976 curvature in 1987, only to lose it again in 1995.
By definition, numeral 6 is always an inverted 9, and this has been true of Kennedy half dollars. In 1966, 1986 and 1996, this figure’s loop was nearly but not quite closed. For the bicentennial edition, an entirely different style of date was employed, and this had a distinctly closed loop to the 6..
The numeral 8 is always the least interesting figure in the dates of 20th Century USA coins, and this is true also of the Kennedy half dollar series. Symmetrical, stacked circles, the upper one slightly smaller than the lower, characterize all 8s for this series. Only the thickness with which the figure is sculpted and its overall dimensions have varied slightly. Exactly the same may be said of numeral 9, as this has retained the same style since 1964 and is always consistent with an inverted 6