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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;National dealer, post: 6447, member: 487&quot;]Well the mint can&#039;t force banks to use any denomination of coinage. The banks order what they need in daily commerce. Because the majority of businesses do not use half dollars, they don&#039;t order them. The Federal reserve estimates about 50 million half dollars sitting in their vaults. Since they don&#039;t need them, they stopped asking the mint for them. </p><p>Now the law still requires the mint to make them. Just like the Sacagawea dollar. Since no one seems to want these coins, the mint chose to sell them. No one is happy with the cost. Other than the mint. Unfortunately if you want them, it is either buy them from the mint, or from the dealer who did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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