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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1578469, member: 4626&quot;]Suppose the Franklin half dollar series would have continued longer; eventually they may have found another president to replace Franklin.&nbsp; Maybe even Reagan, who knows.&nbsp; Had Kennedy not died here&#039;s the presidents that died since 1963:</p><p><br /></p><p>Eisenhower, 1969 (already got on the dollar)</p><p>Truman, 1972</p><p>Johnson, 1973 (but had Kennedy not died, Johnson probably wouldn&#039;t have become president)</p><p>Nixon, 1994 (good chance he wouldn&#039;t have become president either)</p><p>Reagan, 2004</p><p>Ford, 2006 (if Nixon hadn&#039;t become president, most likely Ford wouldn&#039;t have either)</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s fair to say had Kennedy not died, half dollars may have actually practically circulated longer.&nbsp; They likely still would have had the silver phased out, but would have been less hoarding due to the new design/ sympathy for Kennedy&#039;s death.</p><p><br /></p><p>Might have been clad Franklins.&nbsp; At some point they may have redesigned them to get people to use halves more as I still think their use would have declined due to silver hoarding up to the point they went clad.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kennedy may have still got a half dollar anyway, whenever he would have died from natural causes.&nbsp; Based on average longevity in his family, he probably would have lived into the 1980&#039;s, maybe early 1990&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting to think about what-ifs in terms of coins lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S.&nbsp; Supposedly a coin design is supposed to be used for at least 25 years before redesigned.&nbsp; Many exceptions have been made of course.&nbsp; The Franklin design theoretically should have persisted until 1973.&nbsp; They might have even put Truman on, in remembrance of what would have been his recent death.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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