You have a manually altered novelty item, known as a Magician's Coin, made by altering two normal coins and gluing the pieces back together, that sells regularly for a couple dollars. Use a magnifier and examine just inside the raised rim on both sides of the coin, looking for a seam where the pieces are joined, that can be on either side of the coin.
July 3, 2009 The 1977 Kennedy Half Dollar in uncirculated condition is worth about $3. There may be a few cents additional value for the gold plated on it depending on the purity and thickness of the plating. As far as a collectable value, there is some interest in collecting gold plated coins but from a numismatic view the half dollar is not as issued by the mint and by plating it, even with gold, the coin is actually altered.
You have it right on the second guess - it's an ordinary copper-nickel half that was plated. The coin itself is worth 50 cents and it would cost more to recover the gold than you could make by selling it.
After all, even the most brick-headed government bureaucrat wouldn't authorize minting a coin worth hundreds of dollars in gold, and put it into circulation at a half-buck each.
Retail value at most is a $1.00-$1.25
8-4-11>>> The 1977 Kennedy half dollar is very common, still in circulation, contains no silver and is face value, unless it's a "S" mintmark Proof coin or a very high grade Mint State coin.
The 1977 Kennedy half dollar is very common, still in circulation, contains no silver and is face value. Unless it's a "S" mintmark Proof coin or a very high grade Mint State coin just spend it.
The 1977 Kennedy half dollar is very common, still in circulation, contains no silver and is face value, unless it's a "S" mintmark Proof coin or a very high grade Mint State coin.
The FACE VALUE is One Dollar.
Gold-plated, but not gold. All circulating Eisenhower dollars were struck in copper-nickel, so the gold-plating doesn't add anything to its $1 value.
what is a 1977 and 1979 Calgary Stampede Dollar worth
One dollar.
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The US has NOT made a gold one dollar coin since 1889. The coin you have is a just a gold plated 1977 Eisenhower dollar that's only worth a dollar unless you find someone that wants it.
Plated coins normally don't have any extra value to coin collectors. Even with gold's current (2011) high prices, standard plating is so thin that it would cost more to remove it than you'd make in profit.
$1 just one dollar......