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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midtncoin, post: 3299247, member: 89569&quot;]I&#039;ve always felt that it was a 1/2/3 punch.&nbsp; In addition to the hoarding due to Kennedy and the silver pull, there is the additional factor of the rise in use of vending machines and the fact that they accepted neither halves nor dollars.&nbsp; By the 70&#039;s, coins were relegated to use in vending machines only except for the occassional person who would dig through their pockets for exact change.&nbsp; Since they were not accepted in vending, people eventually stopped carrying them.&nbsp; So even if the Kennedy half had not been made and we&#039;d stayed with the Franklin into the 70&#039;s, I&#039;d bet by the 80&#039;s, halves would have still disappeared from circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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