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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 5178757, member: 105098&quot;]As far as 50 cent pieces, they became more common in the 1900s and beyond and while they did bounce around banks earlier, they become more of a normal coin for people to use as time passed and wages increased and prices went up ect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like 1860 the normal laborer was $5.00 a week, by 1900 the average laborer was making about $13 a week and working an average of a 59 hour work week. around 1900 is when child labor was popular, because kids would work the 60 hour work weeks for 1/3rd of the pay that adults made. it was roughly 10 hour days 6 days a week back then. LOL </p><p>there were coin collectors out there, but all those coins minted in the past still circulated and became more used decades after the dates on them from wage increases, cost of living increases and inflation ect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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