I think that half-dollar and small dollar are still officially in
circulation. You might have to ask your bank to ORDER.
I think that they stopped minting half dollar in 2002, when they decided
that they had enough inventory to meet foreseeable needs.
Half-dollar would presumably be all Kennedy. Walking Liberty is now R@RE.
Small dollar would be commemorative presidents, with some random Susan B.
Anthony, Scajewea, Native American small dollars mixed in. But, don't you
want to collact EVERY president? :-)
Cartwheels (large dollar) are not in circulation much.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
This is interesting. How long ago was that out of curiosity? I keep
thinking to ask my bank if they have any dollar coins or half dollar rolls
(probably doing them a favor by trading for more common currency) same with
$2 bills. Might as well get them before they're really out of circulation
unless that already happened.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:47 PM Electronics Plus via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Just for fun, I went to the bank and bought about $1000 in half dollar and
dollar coins. My son collects them, and we went through them all. We did
find some silver half dollars. The ones we are not keeping now go to
whatever fast food or corner store is needed. Some like them, some hate
them! Most tell me they have not seen them in years.
Cindy
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I have not seen any half dollars in circulation in some time. They are
just
too big to fit in people skinny jeans these days.
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On 6/28/19 9:57 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what
it was for.
The big failure of the Susan B. Anthony coin was that it was about the
same size (slightly different shape) as a quarter-dollar coin, causing
people to mistake them as such on occasion.
It was *extremely* unpopular.
FWIW, I just checked my "loose change" container that sits atop my
bedroom dresser. There were two Kennedy half-dollars--one from 1968 and
the other from 1983. I suspect that a great many are still in
circulation.
--Chuck
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