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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26760331, member: 4626&quot;]Basically, three reasons that basically happened at once:</p><p>Rising price of silver meant that eventually silver coins would have more than their face value worth of silver in them, so they had take silver out.&nbsp; So people were saving half dollars because of that.</p><p>Kennedy had just died, so people were saving rather than spending Kennedy halves for that reason.</p><p>It was a new coin design, so people were saving rather than spending half dollars for that reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually people got used to half dollars not being around, used the slot for spare rolls of change, and they started making cash drawers that didn&#039;t have a slot for half dollars anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>Half dollars were still around, technically, but people got used to not using them and treated them as a novelty the few times they saw them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Casinos still had quite a few, mainly for slot machines and low stakes blackjack tables and such.&nbsp; But eventually casinos moved to tokens, and then later cards, so even there you didn&#039;t see them much anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>My father said before 1964 it was really no stranger to get a half dollar in change than a penny.&nbsp; But they quickly fell out of circulation in 1964 and by the 1970&#039;s it was extremely rare to even see one.</p><p><br /></p><p>These days it&#039;s not uncommon to meet people that don&#039;t even know the US even mints half dollars at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Technically they never truly disappeared from circulation; they still make them after all, and they&#039;re still legal tender of course, but none were minted with the intent to circulate in 1970, 1987, 2002-2022 and probably again this year they&#039;re not intended to circulate.&nbsp; But from 1964 on they quickly became a rare sight in circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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