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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1517483, member: 24633&quot;]You know, I don&#039;t feel sorry for the vending machine industry one bit. The half dollar has been 30.6mm since 1839. It isn&#039;t because the coin doesn&#039;t circulate well, <b>NOW</b>, that is the problem. It circulated well enough for more than 125 years. No, it is because the vending industry was (and still is) greedy, and they could save money by not designing a mechanism that would accept the half dollar. When I think back 60 years to the days of my childhood, I don&#039;t ever recall most vending machines ever accepting the half dollar. If you look at the cash registers that are made, today, the configuration has not changed for many, many decades. It still has a cash drawer with five change slots - cent, nickel, dime, quarter and half. If the manufacturers of the vending machines had designed them to accept the half dollar, who knows(!), the half dollar might still be a circulating coin, today.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, a redesign taking two years or more is nothing but bureaucratic hogwash and an excuse for ways to waste the taxpayers&#039; money. While the Mint may not rely on taxpayers&#039; funding, the Congress sure does! In case you forgot, the Kennedy half dollar wasn&#039;t even planned until the death of JFK in November, 1963, and the Mint was still able to produce more than 477 million of them in 1964.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m all for a special 50th Anniversary issue, maybe something on the order of the matte finish that was used for the 1998-S, but let&#039;s put the blame for the lack of circulation of the half dollar where it really belongs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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