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Message:: [QUOTE="RGJohn777, post: 923454, member: 22102"]Yup, this is what I think too.........  ###### Yup, I remeber it well. We had scads of them and so did everybody else. Then our rulers took the silver out of the coins the following year ( BUT because the half was SO VERY POPULAR and now had St. Jack on them, they continued the half alone at 40% until the American public had forgotten about him too).  The half was quite a bit of money and few kids had them but they were used as routinely as cents or anything else by adults. If you had 75 cents ( hey, have ya noticed they don't put the 'cents' symbol on the keyboard anymore!!) change coming, you received a half and a quarter. Today they just give you 3 quarters because both they and you know they are 'out' of halves. Back then, they'd remark about it as they might today if they had to give you 7 dimes and a nickel. Of course today too, they might ask "Do you need change with that?". ###And hey, we were right after all. Those '64 JFK's are valuable. They performed the precious metals miracle. They more or less retained their purchasing power. Less actually but at least they retained SOME of their purchasing power.[/QUOTE]