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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tomsimons, post: 772312, member: 5450&quot;]EDIT: Geez, too slow!</p><p><br /></p><p>How about price level changes?&nbsp; Back in &#039;63, you could buy quite a few things for less than a dollar, thus a large .50 coin had a considerably greater place in everyday transactions.&nbsp; As prices of everything rose through the 70s, I&#039;m fairly sure that even if the design hadn&#039;t changed, the coins would have fallen out of favor for a similar reason that they&#039;re not really all that popular today... they aren&#039;t convenient and they are really unnecessary and awkward.&nbsp; Their former appeal was likely due to their use as a similar denomination as $1.00 in today&#039;s commerce.&nbsp; You could give a kid a half spending money or run to the gas station and buy a pack of cigarettes (or a substantial quantity of gas!)... After the inflation of the 70s, tax increases, and the energy crises, the half was no longer appropriate for that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The general public doesn&#039;t even look at coin designs so while I understand the argument that Kennedy&#039;s popularity caused some hoarding, they made A LOT of them in 1964 and to a lesser degree the years following... there should have been enough. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just my $0.02...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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