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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midtncoin, post: 2886820, member: 89569&quot;]I&#039;ve always assumed it was a two-pronged issue.&nbsp; First, vending machines did not accept them since, prior to the mid-60&#039;s, a soda was only 5 or 10 cents.&nbsp; There was really no reason to use a half dollar to buy anything from a machine.&nbsp; Secondly, the perfect storm of the loss of silver in 65 and the assassination of Kennedy which caused the new coins to be hoarded led to an instant &quot;vacuum&quot; of halves in the channels of commerce.&nbsp; No one spent the silver ones because of their bullion content and no one spent the new Kennedys for nostalgia purpose.&nbsp; So they disappeared.&nbsp; As the vending prices increased, vending machine manufacturers didn&#039;t upgrade their machines to accept halves since no one used them anyway.&nbsp; Since vending machines didn&#039;t accept them at that point, no one bothered to carry them after the nostalgia of Kennedy had worn off. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thus a vicious cycle of negative reinforcement was put into play by a perfect set of circumstances leading us to today where the half hasn&#039;t been minted for circulation in 15 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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