When you reach retirement age -- as most baby boomers have -- it's tempting to start cashing in your investments and putting ...

the Franklin half dollar is a hot item with collectors. This 50-cent piece honors founding father Benjamin Franklin. Made of ...

Benjamin Franklin was a man of many professions and talents — tradesman, publisher, writer, artist, scientist, inventor, political revolutionary, statesman. Bugs Bunny, on the other hand, is a ...

One of the smaller effects of JFK’s assassination is that the government put his image on half dollar coins beginning in 1964. Those coins permanently replaced the Benjamin Franklin 50-cent ...

The coin was designed by John R. Sinnock and first minted in 1948, with the last minting in 1963. The half dollar features a profile of Franklin on the front and the Liberty Bell on the reverse side.

However, one particular dime, featuring an image of U.S. President Franklin ... Kennedy half dollar, and a bicentennial Dwight Eisenhower dollar. At the time, the six-coin set was sold for $7 ...

JFK would appear on the half-dollar. The US Mint quickly began to replace Benjamin Franklin with the fallen president. As coin production technology improved over the past half-century ...