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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 211520, member: 4626&quot;]Don&#039;t recall that the Republicans put up much of a fight when the Eisenhower dollar was eliminated for the sake of the SBA dollar (most of the arguments against it had nothing to do with no longer honoring Eisenhower anyway), but may be wrong there... anyone know how that debate went?&nbsp; Not trying to insert a political discussion into this thread, just curious...</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see the democrats putting up a fight over say, taking Roosevelt off the dime; he&#039;s historically the highest rated democratic president and had a huge impact, both in getting the country through the Depression and WWII.&nbsp; Kennedy only served 2 years and didn&#039;t really make much of an impact in that time.&nbsp; I know of at least one author who has pointed out that sympathy over his assasination has caused him to be consistently overrated (and this from an author who if anything is a little left of center, so I know it&#039;s not just his political bias talking.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also wouldn&#039;t be talking about taking Kennedy off the half dollar and replacing him with someone else, but eliminating the half dollar altogether.&nbsp; However a better solution may be to try to redesign it some way, even keeping Kennedy on, to generate enough interest to actually try to get it back into practical circulation.&nbsp; (However much money the Mint makes selling half dollars to collectors, the seignorage they&#039;d make if they could get it back into something that&#039;s actually commonly used for circulation would be much more, and a justficiation for minting them in much higher quantities than the currently do!)&nbsp; Again, 2017 would be the perfect time to do that, being the 100th anniversary of JFK&#039;s birth... wouldn&#039;t be suprised to see some kind of proposal along those lines as that date gets closer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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