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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1921814, member: 66&quot;]Actually the Mercury and Walking Liberty half WERE redesigned for &quot;change&quot;&nbsp; they had reached their 25 year points and it was already in the planing to change them, but there was this thing called WWII going on so they thought they would delay for awhile.&nbsp; (The mint was under the mistaken impression at the time that the Act of 1890 REQUIRED the designs to be changed every 25 years instead of merely permitting it.)&nbsp; Roosevelt&#039;s death gave them the perfect excuse and design idea for the dime, and the half dollar had to wait until the war was over and things were returning to normal.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure why they chose Franklin other than he was a founding father.&nbsp; Possibly they had been thinking about it back in 1940 which would have been the 150th anniversary of his death.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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