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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3306025, member: 72790&quot;]Whether it would be a Franklin or not (probably, though) we would have circulating fifty cent pieces around. It is difficult for younger folks to understand this , but prior to about 1965 half dollars were in common circulation and frequently used in commerce. When the Kennedy half dollar came out virtually every one of them was pulled from circulation. At the same time the ending of silver for circulating coinage was enacted and the combination of those two happenings pulled so many of the fifty cent pieces out of circulation, for several years, that people got used to going without them and they just never came back as a common circulating medium. By the way, I was really angry that Kennedy replaced Franklin. I always thought JFK was a flash in the pan compared to Franklin who did more for America than almost any American in our whole history ever did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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