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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26587163, member: 4626&quot;]Yeah it is kind of a trick question, but...</p><p>1970, 1987, 2002-2019...</p><p>And maybe again this year (2020-2024 they actually released some half dollars into circulation to alleviate change shortages; how much that helped is arguable as it seems only coin roll hunters noticed lol... not sure if it happened again in 2025).</p><p><br /></p><p>Arguably though it may as well have been 1964.&nbsp; People were hoarding any they found, because:</p><p>1. Kennedy had just died, and they saw the coin as a memorial to him</p><p>2. New coin design; people tend to save new coins a lot for the novelty</p><p>3. Silver was about to be taken out of circulating coins, so people were hoarding all the silver coins they could get their hands on</p><p><br /></p><p>As such, half dollars quickly disappeared from circulation, and as people got used to not seeing them, eventually cash registers were not even made with a spot for them, people asked for them less, businesses asked for them less, banks asked for them less.</p><p><br /></p><p>Half dollars of any kind will always have a soft spot for me because it&#039;s what kept me interested in coin collecting past age 10.&nbsp; My grandmother getting me to go through pennies to put in a Whitman book started my interest, but discovering a half dollar is what got me to stay interested.</p><p><br /></p><p>So looking forward to the new half dollar next year; the design looks great!&nbsp; And in 2027 it gets a new portrait of JFK.</p><p><br /></p><p>The penny hype... just isn&#039;t really hitting me; the omega mark novelty just doesn&#039;t strike a &quot;I must have that!&quot; feeling in me, even if I could afford it.&nbsp; There&#039;s several coins I know I probably realistically could never afford, but I&#039;d still want if I could, and this... just isn&#039;t one of them.&nbsp; For all the arguments they made for getting rid of the penny, which I agree with for the record, they... don&#039;t seem to want to fully commit and want to milk the novelty of the &quot;last&quot; penny (which isn&#039;t even really the last).&nbsp; It seems contradictory to me that they got rid of the penny because it was not necessary... but seem to make us want to buy it as a novelty now... at any rate, the hype just isn&#039;t working on me personally lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll still probably grab a roll or two of the 1776-2026 pennies though.&nbsp; But... I&#039;m not really interested in the &quot;omega&quot; stuff at any price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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