JSTONE9352 wrote:

We already make clad commemorative halves
(most recently, the 2003 First Flight half) -- rather than sell them
directly from the mint, make a bunch and release them to circulation.
Sure, they won't circulate *much* -- but then, neither does the JFK
half.

Then why bother doing it?


Somewhat off topic, but does anyone have any idea why the half dollar
circulates so little today.

35 or 40 years ago, this was a common circulating piece.

It was a common circulating piece
circa 1964-69?

I think you need to go back further
than that for when it was a
common circulating piece.

Halves was common items (about equal in use to quarters) until the
USMint screwed up by not making them 'cupro-nickel clad' like dimes and
quarters were in 1965.

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