Why Still Make Kennedy Halves?

They are neat hefty coins that are still reasonable to acquire in a date set. I like getting them from the bank and spending them. I see the point for ending the Kennedy series, but not the denomination itself.

Since they started making them just for collectors they have made an average of about 4 million coins for each mint each year so 8 million coins. Two million of those go into the mint sets. That leaves 6 million for the rolls and bags. That makes 300,000 rolls of 150,000 roll sets. A roll set cost $35 so that is $5,250,000. Each coin cost about 8 cents to make so their costs are $48,000. So the NET profit is $5,202,000.

Do you know any business willing to give up $5 million in profits to save $48K in costs? After all it's a 10,800% return on investment.

Have to agree with Condor- the mint makes them because they make a lot of money from them, plus the money they make from the mint sets too.

Am I correct that the mintage figure for 2002-present halves is only for the ones NOT in mint sets and the ones in mint sets are yet ADDITIONAL halves for the same year?

I love halves, fun and big! lol I went to the bank to go through 10 rolls of halves and didn't find one earlier than 71, ugh the usual!

Halves get used quite a bit in the casino industry here in Nevada. I know they get used on the blackjack tables since a blackjack pays 1.5 times.

I don't why they don't circulate now, as AG-G Barber and Walking Lib halves attest. I guess America goes thru periods of non-circulating halves and we are in one now. Perhaps if the U.S. got rid of the dead presidents, 50c and the $1 might circulate more. That and getting rid of the dollar bill.

I'm surprised that anyone would be annoyed by receiving a half in change. I routinely spend halves by the roll, and virtually never receive any complaints.

Besides, any major change to the half could severely dent the chances of roll hunters finding halves in circulation.

FOR THE SAKE OF CRHers!
lol!
But seriously, its kinda neat, that since everybody kinda forgot about em, or cashes in their collections of halves, its like a vault of silver unknown to most people except CRHers! I mean, seriously. Even Bens and Walkers aren't that rare when you crh, and what other denomination can you easily find 3 generations of designs with out looking through gazillions of dollars?
just sayin!