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[patbz]

• DH read this morning that a single uncirculated Kennedy 50 cent piece is worth $500.

[deepwaterdotter]

What does the term "unfair hosted" mean? I have a roll of twenty uncirculated Kennedy half-dollars I inherited when my father died.

[software]

Could you direct us to the article?

[Pearlee]

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@deepwaterdotter wrote:

What does the term "unfair hosted" mean? I have a roll of twenty uncirculated Kennedy half-dollars I inherited when my father died.

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@deepwaterdotter  I'm wondering if her autocorrect changed a different word and "unfair" isn't the word.

[ValuSkr]

"Unfair hosted?"  Do you mean "uncirculated?"

Kennedy half dollars were silver in 1964, and part-silver from 1965-67, IIRC.  

If any one is worth $500, it must be a mint error (one that escaped into circulation) or one with a very low mintage (year & mint mark).

[gizmogal]

I don't know the relevance of the word "hosted", but "unfair" is a legitimate word used about coins. 

An unfair coin is weighted (biased) towards one of the sides (head or tails). A fair coin will randomly show up heads or tails for every flip. An unfair coin is one that typically cones up either heads or tails, meaning one of them, more often, flip after flip, than if it were random. 

Hosted is a coin expression I am not familiar with.  

Uncirculated means just what it says-- held by an owner and never used as currency in a transaction. 

[Carmie]

I have several of them, never circulated and always kept in a hard clear coin holder.  They are 100% silver and have never oxidized.

Wow, maybe I am rich!

[Still Stylish Lady]

To my kmowledge no US coins were 100% silver. Sterling silver is 93% and I think US silver coins were 90%.

[SeaMaiden]

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@Carmie wrote:

I have several of them, never circulated and always kept in a hard clear coin holder.  They are 100% silver and have never oxidized.

Wow, maybe I am rich!

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@Carmie  Your idea of rich is different than mine I guess

[michmi]

@SeaMaiden Did your comment contribute something worthy to the conversation or were you just being snarky?

Yeah, we see you.  

To everyone else, I think that's awesome and I wish I had some of the coins I had growing up!