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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CaptHenway, post: 4954770, member: 13813&quot;]Half dollars did circulate up until the Kennedy half killed the denomination due to hoarding. In my old neighborhood there was a &quot;steak and egger&quot; diner built in the early 1960&#039;s. It had a jukebox (no doubt owned by the Detroit Mafia) and in every booth there was a remote control box mounted on the wall you could play songs from. Little flip pages with the songs and their numbers. Three coin slots. One song was a dime, 3 for a quarter, and 7 for a half dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Somewhere in the early 60&#039;s our washing machine died and my parents could not afford to replace it, so Ma went to the local laundromat. I went along to help carry. Wash cycle was one quarter. Dryer was one dime. A change machine gave four quarters for a paper dollar. A different machine gave two dimes and a nickel for a quarter, or five dimes for a half dollar. Being a budding numismatist I got all her change so I could check it first, and I remember dropping halves into that machine for her because five dimes were more useful in a laundromat than four dimes and two nickels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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