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Pillar of the Community
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Do you think the Kennedy half dollars will ever make a comeback and no longer just be NIFC? If the cent disappears then there would be an extra slot in the cash registers...just sayin'. |
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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.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Or we could leave the half where it is and use the extra slot for dollar coins....
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Like that will ever happen!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sorry, I don't see a large American non-circulating coin making a come back.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The only way a half dollar is viable is to shrink the size of it to about that of the quarter and reduce the quarter to about that of a nickel along with getting rid of the penny and nickel.
"Right-sizing" of the coinage will make for a more viable coinage, but there are too many other special interests that have much more money to spend on our legislature in the way of PAC and campaign money so it will likely never happen.
Coins are too large and heavy for the value they represent. There are too many low value coins that the zinc, copper and nickel lobbies won't let us get rid of. Other than eliminating coinage altogether or revaluing them the only other viable solution is to pare down to the needed coins; dime, half and dollar.
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Valued Member
United States
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The mint makes money selling the half dollars.
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Or we could leave the half where it is and use the extra slot for dollar coins.... Get rid of the one dollar not and it will happen.  Quote:
The only way a half dollar is viable is to shrink the size of it to about that of the quarter and reduce the quarter to about that of a nickel along with getting rid of the penny and nickel.
"Right-sizing" of the coinage will make for a more viable coinage, but there are too many other special interests that have much more money to spend on our legislature in the way of PAC and campaign money so it will likely never happen.
Coins are too large and heavy for the value they represent. There are too many low value coins that the zinc, copper and nickel lobbies won't let us get rid of. Other than eliminating coinage altogether or revaluing them the only other viable solution is to pare down to the needed coins; dime, half and dollar. A good summary.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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They are producing a penny wand that grabs refillable money to the wand. Each time you get paid it automatically refills the wand according to your choice of deduction amounts. It attaches to the bottom of a watch.
They have also began testing surgically implanted chips that draw directly from your account, bypassing things like pay pal and credit cards.
All in my imagination, of course, but those things will likely appear in our younger members lifetime.
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Valued Member
United States
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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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12/19/2017 9:28 pm
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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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Pillar of the Community
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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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Valued Member
United States
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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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Bedrock of the Community
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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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