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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drago the Wolf, post: 1510330, member: 22476&quot;]I wrote to both of my Senators anout proposing a redesign of the Kennedy Half to make it smaller and with all of the tactile features I already told you guys about, time and time again. I wasn&#039;t really thinking about writing to my Congress people for a while, but since it takes about 2 years for a new coin design to come out, and its near the end of 2012, and the new halves would probably have to start being minted no later than mid to late 2013, I figured NOW would be the time to act. Here are my letters to the Senators:</p><p><br /></p><p>------------------------------------------------</p><p>Dear Senator,</p><p><br /></p><p>I must once again email you to ask you if tou could do some legislation regarding a half dollar coin redesign. The reason is, in 2014 it will be the 50th Aniversary of the Kennedy half, and since it normally takes about 2 years for a new coin design to come out, this year is the perfect time to propose this measure. </p><p><br /></p><p>Could you please do legislation to make the half smaller, thicker then all other U.S. coins, yet thin enough to still work in vending machine slots, and maybe of a slight polygon shape similar to some of Canada&#039;s coins and a copper color to distinguish it from other coins, as well as a few other tactile features to tell it apart from pennies?</p><p><br /></p><p>Please consider talking with the Senate Banking Commitee about this, as this may be a way to get halves back into circulation and make less needs for large amounts of quarters, and people such as seniors who do not like heavy change, may like a half that weighs less than one quarter, let alone two quarters, which the current half currently weighs. And please try to get the vending industry interested. They have been pushing for a circulating dollar coin and removal of the $1 note, but because most Americans opose such a move, and the quarter&#039;s purchasing power is declining, the half might be the answer, seeing as how, arcade games, gumball machines, toy crane machines etc. are all costing 50 cents now, wouldn&#039;t it make sense for these machines to take halves instead of quarters? Also, those 25 cent 5 stick packs of gum, they now cost 35 cents, so a quarter can not even buy those anymore, and with a half, if people used them for that pack of gum, and got that 15 cent back in change, they might get the idea of &quot;Wow! A coin that you spend and actually get change back from! Not a bill!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, please take this half redesign idea into consideration, and talk to the Senate Banking Commitee about it, as with the quarter&#039;s declining purchasing power, and American&#039;s continued oposition to dollar coins, I think that a circulating smaller half dollar is an idea whose time has come.</p><p><br /></p><p>------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>I still want to email or otherwise write to the Secretary of the Treasury, the U.S. Mint, my House member, and the Federal Reserve System. Hopefully the upcoming aniversary of the Kennedy half will give me the edge. (Oh, and no, this idea does not involve anything to do with dogs)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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