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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1964947, member: 4626&quot;]By Back to the Future mechanics, you&#039;d think as soon as JFK&#039;s assassination is thwarted, the JFK half would turn into a Franklin half (since that series would definitely have run at least another year, had JFK not died and subsequently have been commemorated on the coin).&nbsp; I guess in this story artifacts of an alternate future persist.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not strictly speaking true; it&#039;s against common convention to put a living president on a coin, but it has been done once: Calvin Coolidge was put on the 1926 commemorative (150th anniversary of US&#039;s independence) while still alive.&nbsp; Among non-presidents, Thomas Kilby and Eunice Schriver (JFK&#039;s sister) were both put on coins while still alive (although in 1963 they wouldn&#039;t know about Eunice&#039;s coin, not minted until 1995).</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1963 such a coin would not technically be &quot;counterfeit&quot; since there&#039;s no real JFK half to counterfeit.&nbsp; It may be illegal to produce though since it&#039;s an unauthorized representation of US money (I&#039;m assuming they won&#039;t accept the explanation that it was legally minted in the future by the US Mint lol...).&nbsp; Assuming they don&#039;t believe it was minted in the future, they&#039;d probably conclude it to be a fantasy and/or propaganda piece.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure whether or not it would be considered &quot;illegal&quot; under 1963 law.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s tons of time travel/alternate history stories about the JFK assassination (so far my favorite is Stephen King&#039;s &quot;11/22/63&quot;), but you don&#039;t often see it represented in a coin.&nbsp; I wonder if you could convince Daniel Carr to make a fantasy piece of a 1964 Franklin half dollar for all the alternate history buffs out there.&nbsp; Would probably sell well; heck, I&#039;d buy one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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