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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 1029828, member: 6229&quot;]The Year was 1964.&nbsp; The U.S.Government already made a decision to reduce or eliminate silver from our coinage beginning in 1965.&nbsp; Upon obtaining this information, AT&amp;T contracted with Corning Glass Company to create a Kennedy Half Dollar to replace the ever-more-expensive silver.&nbsp; Corning Glass Company presented the idea to their scientific department.&nbsp; After a few weeks of experimentation (trial and error) a ultra-low cost pattern Kennedy Half Dollar-size coin was produced made entirely of clear photochromic glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Photo courtesy of Bowers and Merena archived on uspatterns.com (click photo for enlargement):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://uspatterns.com/p5395.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://uspatterns.com/p5395.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Photochromic Glass Kennedy Half Dollar Pattern</b></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course it wasn&#039;t deemed viable and thus we have silver clad metal Half Dollars in our collections dated 1965 through 1970.</p><p><br /></p><p>And now you know...</p><p><br /></p><p>Clinker[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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