“While I picked up this piece, a nicely toned proof 1963 Franklin half bearing a ‘turkey’ imprint nicely centered on the Liberty Bell – from Michigan Yooper dealer Jerry Jaeger from Bessemer, who had a table at the Nicolet Coin Club show in Green Bay about 10 days earlier – for illustrative purposes I feel it is a better fit here.

“I suppose I will never know the who, why or how many were similarly counterstamped.

“Obviously, the person must have been an appreciator of Ben Franklin’s having favored the turkey over the eagle as the country’s avian symbol and that Franklin had been supplanted by Kennedy on the half-dollar in1964.”