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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3193224, member: 66"]The halves are so much more common because at that time the mint did not have a bullion fund that they could use to go out on the open market to buy silver and use it to make coins. They were dependent upon the public, businesses, and banks to deposit silver at the mint to be made into coins. By far the largest depositors were banks and import/export businesses. They wanted their silver back as quickly as possible and in large coins to make counting faster and easier. Hence huge mintages of half dollars. The mint even encouraged depositor to get halves because it was less work for the mint to do to coin a given amount of silver. Usually to only time the smaller silver coins were made was when a smaller business specifically requested them because they need the smaller denominations for making change. So lots of halves and very little of anything else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3193224, member: 66"]The halves are so much more common because at that time the mint did not have a bullion fund that they could use to go out on the open market to buy silver and use it to make coins. They were dependent upon the public, businesses, and banks to deposit silver at the mint to be made into coins. By far the largest depositors were banks and import/export businesses. They wanted their silver back as quickly as possible and in large coins to make counting faster and easier. Hence huge mintages of half dollars. The mint even encouraged depositor to get halves because it was less work for the mint to do to coin a given amount of silver. Usually to only time the smaller silver coins were made was when a smaller business specifically requested them because they need the smaller denominations for making change. So lots of halves and very little of anything else.[/QUOTE]
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