Mintage For 2022 Kennedy Half

Darnit, they friggin did it at the mint again. I thought and was hoping they wouldn't. You guys were right.

There apparently is a need for Kennedy half dollars, as the Federal Reserve has placed orders for millions of circulation quality coins for release into commerce channels in 2022.

U.S. Mint spokesman Michael White informed Coin World July 1 that the bureau to date had shipped 5.2 million circulation quality Kennedy half dollars to the Federal Reserve — 3 million from the Denver Mint production and 2.2 million from the Philadelphia Mint.

Another 3.08 million coins — 1.54 million from each facility — were sold by the U.S. Mint above face value in bags and rolls.

A Coin World reader tipped the magazine about finding the coins in circulation. aaaahhhhhh!!!!

This could be a repeat of 2021 where I received 2 full boxes in consecutive weeks of new 2021P halves. This week I went through a full box of halves and found 22 2022P and 17 2022D coins. Probably going to save them for the grandkids.

I will say that the store where I work has used halves for well over a year. Reason being that the bank they use are stingy with quarter orders. Most people seem to like them. A small few don't. But in any case they are still being used in commerce. That said, I haven't seen any new ones coming through. They work out pretty good, I rarely have to open a roll quarters.

@theforce

Giving half dollars in change makes perfect sense given the squeeze on quarters over the last couple years. Here in Boston, I've seen many people in tears looking for rolls of quarters just to do laundry or pay for parking... And giving half dollars also sounds like a great promotion given that so many people like them!

And for those few who complain, well, some people just hate everything.

PS: I bought a bag of half dollars from the Mint back in 2018 or 2019 and gave them out for Halloween. Kids love them.