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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 772270, member: 66&quot;]What makes you think the use would have lessened?&nbsp; As I said in 63 the half dollar was a commonly used everyday coin&nbsp; If the Franklin had continued they probably would have remained an everyday use coin.&nbsp; The reason the half dollar fell out of favor was because of its disappearance from circulation for seven years allowing for a change of habits.&nbsp; People weren&#039;t used to it, vending machines no longer accepted it (They did take them back in the 50&#039;s and early 60&#039;s)&nbsp; The silver changover would have hurt their circulation but I think the 90% and 40% silver Franklins being a familiar design, would have stayed in circulation better than the new Kennedy design that most people wanted to save as a momento of the fallen President.&nbsp; And then when the clad Franklin appeared people would have kept right on using it as the last of the 90 and 40% silver Franklins disappeared.&nbsp; No I think Kennedy (Combined with the loss of silver) was what killed the half dolar as a circulating coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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