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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1134530, member: 15929"]Without reading all the responses so far, Interesting question! I don;t think it would ever happen since the ONLY reason Half Dollars are minted is to satisfy collector needs and to PAD the US Mints General Fund! A better question would be, why do they even mint the danged things! I thought they were governed by Federal Reserve Bank Orders which is the reason so many 2009 dimes and nickels were hard to find? They even stopped production of the coins since the FRB wasn't ordering any. Oh well, since the US Mint gets much more than face value seigniorage for each half dollar they produce, I seriously doubt they want to give them out at face value. Too big of a loss for them. Besides, the Direct Ship Dollar program is only a half assed attempt at getting dollar coins out to local merchants who refuse to integrate them into their change model. Not only that but literally ANY merchant can get them from literally ANY bank ANY time they want. Why would they pay postage to get $250 worth? Make no mistake, the Direct Ship Program simply panders to collectors since I can't think of one valid reason that a local merchant would want to order these from the US Mint. Only collectors do. The exact same would be true of the half dollars which are readily availble via order for all who want them at any US Bank.[/QUOTE]