This second-year Proof issue of the Franklin half dollar was struck at the Philadelphia Mint and represents a challenging issue for collectors looking to
The assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a huge shock to the American nation and the world, not only because it is
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United States 1971-P Kennedy Half Dollar
Kennedy half dollar.
John F. Kennedy, the Kennedy half dollar replaced former
United States Mint Chief Engraver
John R. Sinnock’s design featuring Founding Father
Benjamin Franklin that had been in use since 1948. And in the following year, the half dollar’s composition was changed from the 90% silver and 10% copper standard fineness of circulating subsidiary coinage to 40% silver and 60% copper–an alloy referred to as “silver-clad”. The silver-clad half dollar retained
Gilroy Roberts’ bust of Kennedy on the obverse and
Frank Gasparro’s heraldic eagle on the reverse.
A few years later, silver was eliminated from the denomination altogether by the bill authorizing the creation of the