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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26580482, member: 27832&quot;]From memory, none were struck for circulation in 1970 (and prices for mint sets from that year spiked heavily in the early 1970s). They resumed in 1971.</p><p><br /></p><p>None were struck with the date 1975, but 1776-1976 Bicentennial halves were struck in 1975 <b>and</b> 1976.</p><p><br /></p><p>No halves were struck for circulation in 1987.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had to look up the more recent figures, because <i>I</i> wasn&#039;t paying enough attention to remember. Looks like they were struck only for collectors from 2002 until 2019, and the Fed started shipping them for circulation again in 2020, although it took a year or two for the mintages to come back up. I&#039;m not sure <i>why</i> the Fed started issuing them again; I&#039;ve certainly never gotten one in change without explicitly requesting it, except of course at coin shows. Nobody wants to use them. And as far as I know, there wasn&#039;t ever a single bit of a premium for 1986 halves, or 2001 halves, or... you get the picture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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