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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 320777, member: 4626&quot;]Basically whatever the demand is.&nbsp; Banks aren&#039;t ordering them anymore, so it&#039;s really all on the collectors buying bags, rolls, and mint sets (since 2005 the mint sets have the matte finish as far as I know, not the standard business strike.&nbsp; I honestly can&#039;t tell the difference between the supposed matte finish and a well struck unicruclated, but maybe that&#039;s just me.)</p><p><br /></p><p>2006-P may very well be the key, so far, but the series isn&#039;t over yet and the mintage of future Kennedys may be even less.&nbsp; A mintage of 2 million isn&#039;t &quot;rare&quot; though, it just happens to be rare than any other Kennedy, so far...</p><p><br /></p><p>1970-D, 1987-P, 1987-D are about as rare (all about 2 to 2.5 million or so).&nbsp; 2006-P may be slighlty rarer, not sure if they have the final mintage figures yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>To be honest, and not that I&#039;m complaining, I wonder why they continue to mint these... I see so many people argue against continuing to mint the penny, but people are actually using pennies... this coin isn&#039;t even minted for circlation anymore and has barely circulated at all during its 44 year long (and counting) existence.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you keep buying them, they&#039;ll keep minting them lol... barring literally an act of Congress...</p><p><br /></p><p>I hear in 1987 they were trying to eliminate it (why none were issued for circulation that year) but a certain senator from Massachusetts argued it should be continued to preserve JFK&#039;s legacy.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure you can guess which one lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe in 2017 they&#039;ll do a special reverse for JFK&#039;s 100th birthday, much like they&#039;re doing special reverses for the Lincoln cent for Lincoln&#039;s 200th?&nbsp; I figure they&#039;ll probably keep the series going at least that long.&nbsp; Maybe that could help get the general public to start using them again.</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally think they should either eliminate the half dollar or do something to make it acutally circulate again, seems wasteful otherwise.&nbsp; I&#039;ll still keep collecting it as long as they keep making it though lol... I&#039;ve been fond of halves since I learned of their existance and wish they would actually become useful again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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