Did Communist saboteurs sneak a hammer and sickle into the design of the Kennedy half dollar?
Dear Cecil: I was in the fourth grade when the first Kennedy half-dollars came out. My friend Dominic Riccutti (who supposedly knew everything about everything) told me those little markings on Kennedy’s neck were there because some Communist agents had broken into the mint and engraved the hammer and sickle on the original mold and it hadn’t been caught in time before the new coins were struck. Well, that was over 20 years ago and I recently got a new Kennedy half-dollar at the 7-Eleven and the markings are still there! In all this time they’ve kept changing the dates but they’ve never cleaned up Kennedy’s neck. Is this all part of some pinko plot to subvert America by secretly marking our coins?
