H.R.1923 - Kennedy half dollar will have its obverse and reverse redesigned for one year only, 2026
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This is all kind of confusing to me 
The Kennedy half dollar will have its obverse and reverse redesigned for one year only, 2026, for the nation’s 250th anniversary.
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H.R.1923 – Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020
H.R.1923 – Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, one of the final Numismatic related bills of the 116th Congress, has been signed into law by President Donald Trump. The Act offers some of the most sweeping changes to our circulating coinage and brings a list of changes to the Quarter Dollar, Half Dollar, Medal programs and bullion coins.
Here are the highlights of the bill:
Circulating Quarter Dollar honoring women to be issued from 2022 to 2025. There would be five coins each year, similar to the current America the Beautiful series currently in product and set to end next year.
Multiple denominations in 2026 to celebrate the semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) of the found of the United States of America.
Circulating Quarter Dollar celebrating youth sports from 2027 to 2030. This would include multiple issues per year.
**Redesign of the Reverse of the Half Dollar celebrating sports performed by individuals with disabilities from 2027 to 2030. **
A medal program of the same designs of the circulating coins that celebrate youth sports and by sports by individuals with disabilities.
Medal program for the 2028 Olympic Games that are to be held in Los Angeles, California.
Silver bullion coins with the same designs of all the afore mentioned Quarter Dollar and Half Dollar from 2022 to 2030 in the 5-ounce size as well as “Fractional Sizes”
“A unifying inscription, privy mark, or other symbol for that particular coin program” is authorized.
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Bicentennial and a half Half Dollar
Noooooo!
The half is OK but all that other stuff... I give up.
Apologies for expressing a strong opinion on something that is political:social in nature, but:
I think it is wholly appropriate to honor prominent women on our circulating coinage, but
As much as I would like to encourage youth sports, I find it mind-boggling that this rises to the subject of American coinage.
Yes. Good points.
I am more concerned by endless series than what is pictured. Obviously some are more deserving than others but I can't help but think that those who sponsor these bills never even see the results in coin form.
I as a Kennedy collector will openly embrace the new designs.
I hope that I can submit my thoughts on the new "designs".
Time will tell. Thanks for the posting @1630Boston
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Bring back Liberty!
Oh the want for old artistic designs.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Bring back the old motifs, we don't want real people. WE WANT LADY LIBERTY!!! We should totally storm the treasury building if we don't get the redesigns.
Just as the coins many of us collect, our desires are a relic of the past. Classic motifs and themes will only show up on commemorative coins now and then going forward.
Just wait for the day when the term Lady Liberty is cancelled because one or even both words are deemed offensive.
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I think it is time just to retire the monotonous, worn-out dead presidents and let them rest in peace. Bring back Liberty and symbols of what this country stands for. All this political crap on our coins disgust me.
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No colorized coins or weird denominations? They'll never catch up with the RCM that way.
It looks the same to me!
She will be labeled Ms. Lady Liberty. That will keep some happy.
I am OK with one offs like this years Washington Crossing the Delaware or creating these kinds of depictions of our history as a nation. Leave this other stuff to the commemorative program not on our daily coinage.
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Not that I disagree with the main premise, but putting Liberty on the coins is also "political".
Don't forget the exotic shapes...
I am not particularly excited about the quarters. I am a bit jaded after the SHQ's etc., etc.,.... I will be interested in the half dollar in 2026... I hope it will be a truly artistic rendering symbolizing our Republic. In silver, and a W mint rendering. Yeah... That's the ticket....
Cheers, RickO
I disagree, I would rather have endless series than unchanging design coin, such as the Roosevelt dime. As for the Lincoln cent, It is long past due to change the obverse, even if it is just facing Lincoln the other way.
There was a long period of time when the circulating coinage was relatively boring. 1965-1998 and for some series from 1932-1998.
I mailed the mint director (about 1978) a letter suggesting changing of designs and while she mailed me back saying that while she was in favor of design change, congress would not authorize it at this time. Thanks to the success of the 50 states program, we now have changes on the quarter 5 times a year. I hope this keeps on going.
I think it is more than that. There has been so much change in circulating coinage since 1999 that hardly anyone even bothers to look at it at all. Even among coin collectors, this is likely to be true because most don't collect it except as a sideline and the perpetual change, mediocre designs and themes makes it uninteresting.
With the non-collecting public, none of them are going to remember what has been issued since 1999. I don't and don't believe more than a very low minority here can do it either without checking somewhere first.
@WCC said: "There has been so much change in circulating coinage since 1999 that hardly anyone even bothers to look at it at all."
I think this is true, but I think there would be more interest if coins were actually worth something in commerce. A quarter is really the only widely circulating coin that is worth anything, and its value is similar to that of a cent back in 1950. Unless we come out with coins with denominations of $2 and $5, I'm afraid they'll continue to be ignored.
I have been a collector since 1975, intermittently prior to 1998. When I resumed, I did initially make a limited attempt to collect the SQ out of pocket change and ordered a few of the proof sets from the US Mint. But I quickly lost interest because it just wasn't interesting enough to me.
I agree with you to a point about the lack of purchasing power. This is one of the reasons I try to avoid coins altogether with my purchases. I don't have much of a "change jar" anymore and intentionally avoid receiving change back.