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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26061300, member: 4626&quot;]There&#039;s actually a law that says a coin design has to run for 25 years before it&#039;s changed, though exceptions have been made to it several times.&nbsp; (The tiny eagle on the reverse of the Franklin half dollar is due to another law saying any coin with a higher denomination than a dime has to have an eagle on the reverse.)&nbsp; It was suggested that Kennedy be put on the dime, but Jackie Kennedy didn&#039;t like the idea of FDR being taken off of that, saying that JFK admired him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly enough if they wanted to stick the the 25 year rule, Jefferson nickels would have been eligible.&nbsp; I think another reason they settled on half dollars was that at the time, it was the only circulating denomination to not have a president on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>In an alternate timeline where JFK was not assassinated, Franklin half dollars probably would have continued and we&#039;d have clad Franklin halves by now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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