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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1830654, member: 16729&quot;]Certainly, the halves issued since that time being issued for sale to collectors only, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder what the US Mint&#039;s decisions are based on:&nbsp; Cost/benefit?&nbsp; Consumer (meaning: collectors) demand?&nbsp; Inertia?</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>And, really, what does &quot;issued for circulation&quot; mean when I have never see a half-dollar in change ANYWHERE, except when I get change back from some fellow coin-nerd, like at my local coin shop?&nbsp;&nbsp; Or in extremely rare cases...</p><p><br /></p><p>This issue has come up in my other passion: contemporary Korean coins.&nbsp; There, they just kept minting 1 Won and 5 Won coins in the late 1980s and early 1990s (about a half a million to a few million a year) even though they no longer appeared in circulation.&nbsp;&nbsp; From all that anyone knows, the Bank of Korea just vaulted them.&nbsp;&nbsp; Probably still sitting there.&nbsp; I&#039;ve asked them about this, many times, and no answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why does this happen?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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