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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NorthKorea, post: 1730579, member: 29643&quot;]What void does the half dollar coin fill? Kids in America these days don&#039;t get 50-cent per week (or even per day!) allowances. Also, two quarters aren&#039;t any less convenient than one 50-cent piece. In fact, since the mass-produced coin sorters have compartments for 1-cent, 5-cent, 10-cents, 25-cents, and occasionally $1, adding 50-cent coins into the mix is non-viable. Most stores do their cash counts with the following columns:</p><p><br /></p><p>Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, Quarters for coins</p><p>$1, $5, $10, $20, $100 for bills</p><p>All other (50-cent coin, $1 coin, $2 bill, $50 bill) typically end up in &quot;miscellaneous&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that individual collectors find it difficult to gather 50-cent coins from circulation is more an example of their lack of utility than an excess demand. The US Mint should definitely NOT produce additional 50-cent pieces for circulation, unless the plan is to get rid of the quarter and penny.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the basic argument that ends up being considered when talking about &quot;introducing&quot; a 50-cent piece:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;It fills a demand!!!&quot; - It really doesn&#039;t unless we create an artificial demand.</p><p>&quot;I shouldn&#039;t have to pay more than 50-cents for a 50-cent coin!&quot; - Well, I shouldn&#039;t have to pay more than $1 for a Flowing Hair type or Heraldic dollar, but no one listens to me either.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are more people who like the quarter than people who like halves, so the halves will not be a focus of circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Pretty much being asinine from here out. I don&#039;t advocate for getting rid of small denomination coins/bills, nor do I advocate for the introduction of denominations which have been evolved out of circulation.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If we got rid of the penny, the dime and the quarter, 20-cent and 50-cent pieces would make sense. Then we&#039;d have nickels and halves. We could introduce 20-cent and $2 coins to fill the need for a &quot;change&quot; feeling in our pockets. Then remove the $1, $2, $5, $10 and $50 bills from circulation. To adjust to the inflationary impact of having the dime be our smallest circulating unit, $500 bills could be printed for circulation purposes.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, the new system of money in the US would be:</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins: 5-cent, 20-cent, 50-cent, $2</p><p>Bills: $5, $20, $100, $500</p><p><br /></p><p>End of asinine commentary.</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly, the 50-cent piece serves no purpose. We shouldn&#039;t have a system where we have six coins, five of which somehow work to be a 2:1 combination of another unit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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