Why Still Make Kennedy Halves?

Because I like them! It's obviously dead as a useful coin in our current society and has been for some time. I suppose that in the future when pennies and maybe nickels are no longer needed... They should replace the half dollar with a $5 coin of similar size, then do away with $1 and $5 bills. But, that won't happen, so...

I carry several half dollars all the time. I just like having them. I also use them as special rewards for the kids.

Hey, I actually use them.

Being twice the size of a quarter was important when they were silver but now that just makes them awkward.

I don't think they are so large as to be awkward (my older son was using one to draw a circle the other day and he said that he thought half dollars were bigger than that). I like that they are big enough that I can easily tell what I have when I feel it in my pocket.

If I get one back in change, I ask for 2 quarters.

i got rolls of quarters ill trade ya for all your 1960's halves. Be glad to take em off your hands. LOL

:)

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.