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I'm curious when half dollars last circulated regularly. Surely Barbers, Walkers, and Franklins circulated but about what time when people stopped using the half dollar? I'm guessing around 1964 when Silver was removed.
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I can recall using 50c regularly up until my daughter was born, 1982, Phoenix. It was a hot climate, shorts, halves got too heavy, a few papers were all I needed to get through a day, of meals and Whatnots. It was after the fiasco of the big then little hard round dollar that seemed to be in only two places, the PO or Casinos. All the other mechanical feeders were quarter.
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I'm curious when half dollars last circulated regularly. Surely Barbers, Walkers, and Franklins circulated but about what time when people stopped using the half dollar? I'm guessing around 1964 when Silver was removed. The coin was minted for circulation all the way up through 2001. Of course, that doesn't necessarily answer your question, as who knows how well it was being circulated. Beginning in 2002, it was minted only for collectors. |
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Probably not, unless they shrink it.
We can free two slot by killing off the nickel as well. This effectively shifts the decimal point one place. The dime is a cent, the half dollar is a nickel If you think of it, that's a really good idea. Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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I can remember JFK halves circulating in early 1980's--after that, they seemed to vanish from the circulation.
Once in while, my Dad was able to get some halves for me from his work.
I am in favour of the resizing of our coinage. Our coins do not buy much as they used to be.
Half dollar coins has to be reduced in its size. It makes me wonder why Australia and Canada does not do the same for their 50 cent pieces?
I think with Canada's case, they just use cheaper materials. Not sure about Australia?
Anyway, it would be nice to see half dollars coming back in the circulation.
I would love to see the number for each denominations---my relatives do not understand why Americans would not put numbers on their coins yet year on the coin is the only numbers we see.
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I would love to see the number for each denominations---my relatives do not understand why Americans would not put numbers on their coins That's an interesting "question" that I don't know the answer to. We used to have numeric denominations on coins. Quote:
There are too many low value coins that the zinc, copper and nickel lobbies won't let us get rid of. For the heck of it, I roughly calculated the total metal used for circulating nickels in 2006 (Return to Monticello). Between Denver & Philly, there were 1.5 Billion nickels minted. At 5 grams a piece, that equals: 8,268.75 tons of copper-nickel. Considering they are 75% copper and 25% nickel, you can figure the total amount of each metal necessary. For the same year, circulation Lincoln cents, at 2.5 grams and 97.5% zinc, required: 22,127.59 tons of zinc for 8.234 Billion coins. Also worth noting is the stake of the Mint's supplier of readymade cent blanks. Just some fun facts.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Half dollar coins has to be reduced in its size. It makes me wonder why Australia and Canada does not do the same for their 50 cent pieces? For the same reason we don't use $2 coins, their currency is what their country is used to and people like what they're used to. |
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For the heck of it, I roughly calculated the total metal used for circulating nickels in 2006 (Return to Monticello). Between Denver & Philly, there were 1.5 Billion nickels minted. At 5 grams a piece, that equals:
8,268.75 tons of copper-nickel. Considering they are 75% copper and 25% nickel, you can figure the total amount of each metal necessary.
For the same year, circulation Lincoln cents, at 2.5 grams and 97.5% zinc, required:
22,127.59 tons of zinc for 8.234 Billion coins. Nice work @spruette. I wonder how much of this input material is fresh ore vs. recycled? (with apologies to @theforce for somewhat hijacking this thread...) "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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It makes me wonder why Australia and Canada does not do the same for their 50 cent pieces? Not sure about Australia but Canada reduced the half dollar in size back in the 60's when it went from silver to nickel. Before that it was slightly smaller than the US coin, now it is slightly larger than the dollar coin and noticeably smaller than its US counterpart. The Canadian dollar circulates even less than the US one. |
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What I feel is that the half dollar should have ended with 2001 since they were no longer issued for circulation from 2002-present. Mint sets were meant to give collectors a higher grade example of each of the circulating coins but half dollars no longer circulate so to me it doesn't make sense to include it. But from a government standpoint I'm sure they like profiting from it.
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Thank you for that.  Quote:
But from a government standpoint I'm sure they like profiting from it. Correct. They are.  |
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They should just make the Half Dollar coin a paper bill. Actually change all coins to paper bills. |
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A return to the fractional currency of 1863 to 1875.
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They should just make the Half Dollar coin a paper bill. Actually change all coins to paper bills. Quote:
A return to the fractional currency of 1863 to 1875. You all are nutters!   |
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