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What Could Have Been A Good Use For Halves

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 Posted 04/17/2015  9:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Fox to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Maybe because some people absolutely HATE credit cards beyond words. I may be having someone using my name for credit card fraud, and it is stopping me from purchasing a home. Can't do that crap to someone with a $2 bill or a half dollar coin. This is why I say, SCRAP ALL CREDIT/DEBIT/CHECKS AND BRING BACK THE $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 BILLS AND ADD A $200 AND $2,000 BILL!. I am fed up with credit, debit and checks ruining my life, and have a lot of not nice words I would use against them if I could!
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 Posted 04/18/2015  12:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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So why not just make all those vending machines to take a credit card. Then no problem of making change.
A lot of them do.
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 Posted 04/18/2015  01:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jpsned to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I love the idea of circulating halves, but the fact is that they don't make half dollars for circulation anymore. I doubt that a bunch of Walmart customers using half dollars to buy soda would move Congress to change that.
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 Posted 04/18/2015  09:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Fox to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@jpsned,

I have already read, and been told that there was a 10 year or so supply of circulation quality halves, and that, when they run out of that supply of circulaion supply halves, they will mint more halves for circulation. I just wish they would run out of the currency circulation quality halves so that the U.S. Mint will mint new halves for circulation purposes. Hey everyone! Lets start hoarding halves to make that happen!
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I have already read, and been told that there was a 10 year or so supply of circulation quality halves, and that, when they run out of that supply of circulaion supply halves, they will mint more halves for circulation.


That 10 years or so supply of circulation quality halves adds up to almost a dozen coins.

Outside of a few casinos using them in place of chips and the odd person or two that insist on using them people just don't want them. I see more Ikes and SBA's than I do halves in circulation, that should say something.
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Or we could follow the good ol' neighborhood Carl Marx and get rid of money altogether.
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Do you mean Carl or his brother Karl?
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 Posted 04/19/2015  12:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
We definitely have plenty of half dollars for circulation if they ever started circulating again. Just a few minutes in the monster JFK roll hunting thread will convince you of this.
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New halves may not be minted for circulation, but they're showing up anyway. I believe this is because the Mint dumps any unsold ones made for sets at the end of the year, although if someone knows better, I'll accept correction. Anyhow, I get recent-date Kennedys from my local bank pretty regularly.
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Oops. Karl.
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