1966 SMS 50C Mint Error Struck 35% off Center NGC MS66. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 and died on November 22, 1963. Over the course of his life, JFK was the commander of a Motor Torpedo Boat, a representative in the U.S House of Representatives and most importantly, the 35th President of the United States of America . As President of the United States , Kennedy worked tirelessly to fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself, as well as making great strides to put a man on the moon.

On November 22,1963 while on a political trip to Texas, President Kennedy was shot once in the upper back and was killed with a final shot to the head. He was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. Only 46, President Kennedy died younger than any U.S. president to date. Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository from which the shots were suspected to have been fired, was arrested on charges of the murder of a local police officer and was subsequently charged with the assassination of Kennedy.

The Kennedy Half Dollar replaced the Franklin Half Dollar within 3 months of John F. Kennedys death. Gilroy Roberts, the former chief engraver of the mint, and Frank Gasparro, the current chief engraver at the time, designed the coin a mere five days after Kennedy's deaththough the profile of Kennedy was the same one Roberts had used for Kennedy's inaugural medal two years earlier. The obverse of the Kennedy Half Dollar is of course, the bust image of President Kennedy, while the reverse of the coin is adorned by the Seal of the President of the United States.

The example shown, graded MS-66 by NGC, features a 35% off center strike, which is denoted by the label. The error on this coin is exceptionally rare due to the way it was minted. Struck as a part of a Special Mint Set, SMS, this coin is characterized by a better than average strike, since they were struck on higher-tonnage coin presses than circulation-quality coins, but they were not struck as Proofs.

A spectacular error on a very historic coin, this example would fit perfectly in an error coin specialists collection, or anyone looking for a truly spectacular piece.