We are please to offer for sale this 1973-D Kennedy Half Dollar Gem BU. This Kennedy Half Dollar is in Brilliant Uncirculated ( BU ) condition. All of our BU Kennedy Half Dollars have nice eye attract and no major marks or visible problems, representing a great value for the price. This 1973-D Kennedy Half Dollar is of bang-up worth to the collector or numismatist that needs to fill a hole in their BU Kennedy Half Dollar adjust. These Kennedy Half Dollars are taken from either original BU Rolls or Mint Sets. The Kennedy Half Dollar was first hit in 1964 as a memorial to the recently assassinated American President, John F. Kennedy. The U.S. Mint and Congress moved identical promptly to make the coin a reality, and the coin was authorized by Congress entirely a month after Kennedy ‘s end. Initially, consideration was being given to depicting Kennedy on one of the larger silver coins, the silver dollar, half dollar, or quarter dollar. The president ‘s widow Jaqueline Kennedy preferred that he be depicted on the half, as she did not want him to replace George Washington on the quarter. The Kennedy Half Dollar was jointly designed by Gilroy Roberts, the Chief Engraver, and Frank Gasparro. Both men based their Kennedy Half Dollar designs on the John F. Kennedy Presidential Medal. This was necessitated by the time constraints involved. Roberts was responsible for the obverse of both the decoration and the Kennedy Half Dollar, and made some minor changes to his previous purpose, including altering Kennedy ‘s hair at the request of Jaqueline Kennedy, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as the addition of the words LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST. The inverse of the coin features the presidential Seal, adapted by Gasparro from the varnish on the Presidential Medal.
The metallic composition of the Kennedy Half Dollar has changed several times since the coin was first gear minted in 1964. initially, it featured a 90 % silver composing, but only for coins bearing the date 1964. however, due to the incredible necessitate for the Kennedy Half Dollar, coins with the date 1964 were reauthorized two times and continued to bear the date 1964 until well into 1965, with about 430 million 1964 Kennedy Half Dollars minted in all. Due in separate to the large number of 1964 Kennedy Half Dollars, the mint had used up a large assign of its silver holdings, which combined with the rising value of silver medal, led the total used in the coins to be reduced to 40 % from 1965 until 1970. Kennedy Half Dollars produced from 1971 on contain no eloquent and are comprised of copper and nickel.
The 1973-D Kennedy Half Dollar BU is comprised of an out layer of .750 ( 75 % ) copper and .250 ( 25 % ) nickel bonded to a core of saturated copper. This Kennedy Half Dollar has a diameter of 30.6mm and a mass of 11.34 grams. Check out all of our Kennedy Half Dollars in Gem Uncirculated ( BU ) condition !
