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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 525198, member: 4626&quot;]They didn&#039;t stop mills... no US coin ever existed with a denomination of less than 1/2 a cent for them to stop...&nbsp; It technically always existed (and still does; look at gas prices) as a unit of account, but no coins were ever produced with such a denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Spoken volumes on why half dollars are basically dead as a circulating coin (and have been since 1964).&nbsp; They&#039;re still minted, but just for the sake of collectors.&nbsp; But they&#039;re not fading from view... they&#039;ve already long since faded more than 40 years ago for all intensive purposes.</p><p><br /></p><p>People thought they were going to stop 20 cent coins about as fast as they&#039;d start them, and they were right.&nbsp; They were only produced for practical circulation basically for one year.&nbsp; It&#039;s the shortest lived denomination we ever had.</p><p><br /></p><p>Few thought 2 cent coins were going to last long, and they didn&#039;t.&nbsp; Not as short lived as the 20 cent piece, but it still was only produced for 10 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>They still do make convertible cars btw.&nbsp; Not as popular or prevalent as they once were of course, but they&#039;re still being made and they&#039;re still out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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