Next great half dollar?

iIwas just wondering what you all thought on this subject, so the kennedy half (which is a beautiful coin) has been around for 40 plus years. Who will be the next great half dollar? and do you think it will be changed soon?

 

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no, too many people still alive that will squak about it if it is changed.

 

Not a chance that it'll change. We're stuck with the dead Presidents we have on our coins for our lifetimes. Kennedy is the newcomer as far as former Presidents on coins and he has relatives in powerful places that will see to it that he is not taken off the Half Dollar. Lincoln has been on the Cent for a Century now and he ain't going anywhere. In fact, Lincoln just got a facelift.

 

Oh Yes~

Like Ben Franklin

The most famous Prez of the United States...who was never Prez of the United States?

 

It would be great to see the dime and half dollar changed. Been there long enough. Same with the nickel.

 

We don't need the half dollar as a circulating coin ... because it doesn't.
Convert it to use for commemorative designs (more space than a quarter).

THEN make the circulating dollar coin the size of the current half.
That will help alleviate the current size confusion between quarter and dollar coins.
But the dollar wouldn't be so large that they would be "pocket busters" (I remember those days).
Oh yeh, and get rid of the paper dollar or the dollar coin still won't circulate.

 

I agree

 

They could slowly change the look of Kennedy every year until he transforms into Obama.

 

Here's another question:

Will the half ever be widely circulated again?

As a kid, I saw them all the time, now it is a rarity.

 

I don't believe it. It is too big and doesn't fit well in the pocket or purse. Plus, the stores have to find a slot to put them into the register. You rarely see any coins above the quarter in circulation. As debit cards become the method of choice for transferring funds, money may become less and less needed in the future.

 

What about strippers and waitresses?

 

Why would they bother to change it? The halfs aren't even released into circulation anymore, so probably the only people who even know they're still being made are collectors. There's no real incentive for the mint to mess with the design at all.
Guy~

 

Unless the same is done to them that has been done to everything else except the dime - a collector series half program - that would drive banks crazy!

 

And the half is the perfect size to do a commemorative series.....I don't see it happening, but it is much better size than the quarter

 

Good Lord Dok U Mint! That Ben Franklin looks like he was on the losing side of the knife fight in West Side Story. What happened to it?

 

Instead we will start passing all our half dollars as dollars. When will people learn that you can't have two coins of different values the same size.

 

I think the Kennedy clan are half dollar hoarders, never see the halves around anywhere, even the banks don't have them it seems. Takes a special order to turn them up.

 

No no no no... Very very very ugly...
I personally hate it, but it ain't as bad as an SBA or Presidential Dollar
I liked the Frankie Half! And the BUST HALF! And all the other halves before the kennedy!
I say we stop putting the dead presidents on the dang coins! Lets get a liberty statue in there somewhere

But if we stick with dead presidents... Reagan and Nixon Please :eat:

 

That's an interesting idea Kanga, of switching the current coin sizes per denomination. I do think that the half will be phased out of circulation except for special commems and mint sets in the future. I also have something to add and suggest... I am an advocate for streamlining US paper currency and that we elimintate the $1, $2 and $5 notes, replacing them with coins and here to adopt sizes similar to the UK pound and two pound coins... the pound coin is small and thick and the two pound coin is roughly the size of the half in bi-metal design... then when UK pounds get into US coin rolls, we will have a currency mixed in that's worth more rather than less (Canada) in our change. LOL! :goofer: