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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The half dollar is one of the most popular U.S. coins to collect. Though many aren’t worth more than their face value, older half dollars often hold value due to the silver in their composition ...

a few changes in letter size — but nothing of real significance until it was replaced after a 31-year run with the Benjamin Franklin half dollar, itself not a bad-looking coin. Still ...

Liberty coins, Morgan silver dollars, Mercury dimes, Franklin half-dollars and more. Not knowing what some of these coins even were, let alone what they might be worth, he took them to a ...

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 ...

Since government-issued coins had first appeared in the world ... by swapping his image for the one of Benjamin Franklin on the half-dollar. President Lyndon Johnson issued an Executive Order ...