blog

New Discovery: Proof Ike $1 and Kennedy 50c Struck on Shell Tokens!

New Discovery: Proof Ike $1 and Kennedy 50c Struck on Shell Tokens!

Posted by JonSullivan on Oct 6th 2017

We recently made a discovery that Coin World has published in their weekly paper. Proof Ike dollars and Kennedy halves are known from the 1970's which are struck on aluminum coins or tokens. Until now, it was unknown what token or coin these proof Ike and Kennedy halves were struck on, but we did some research and were able to figure it out by clsoely examing a proof 1970-S Kennedy half and a proof Ike dollar that we have in our inventory.

Read the article here on Coin World's website: https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2017/10/1970s-coins-struck-on-aluminum-game-tokens.html