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How often do you receive half dollars in circulation ?

mach19mach19 Posts: 5,086 ✭✭✭✭

Thinking about the 2026 always remember 9/11/01 coin .

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    jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 43,095 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As often as you do

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    ms71ms71 Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never, not in years,

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    mach19mach19 Posts: 5,086 ✭✭✭✭

    So the only chance is to get them from a bank.... good luck with that !

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    CapgunCapgun Posts: 999 ✭✭✭

    No

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    ColonialcoinColonialcoin Posts: 926 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never, ever. Especially a 40%’er in poor-1 which no way circulated in general commerce for 40 or 50 years

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    HATTRICKHATTRICK Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Going for a box from my bank. Will probably get a box of old non silver Kennedy halves with flood damage. :/

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    mach19mach19 Posts: 5,086 ✭✭✭✭

    LOL me TOO !

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    Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,951 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I get them all the time at my local casino when playing 21, when I get a Blackjack that pays 3 for 2. o:)

    Dave

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    mach19mach19 Posts: 5,086 ✭✭✭✭

    @Dave99B said:
    I get them all the time at my local casino when playing 21, when I get a Blackjack that pays 3 for 2. o:)

    Dave

    Awesome !

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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,325 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I got them infrequently but regularly until 1977. Since then very rarely.

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,163 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've gotten 5 in the last 3 months or so. A local food place saved them for mr and 1 was a 2026 half

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    fox9487fox9487 Posts: 344 ✭✭✭

    @mach19 said:
    Thinking about the 2026 always remember 9/11/01 coin .

    Why ask a question when you already know the answer? Or should. Ridiculous.

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    mach19mach19 Posts: 5,086 ✭✭✭✭

    @fox9487 said:

    @mach19 said:
    Thinking about the 2026 always remember 9/11/01 coin .

    Why ask a question when you already know the answer? Or should. Ridiculous.

    Hmmm

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,222 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Every once in a while some will appear in the register till. When I do get the not normally circulating coins, I spend them.

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    CregCreg Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Do you ask cashiers at stores if they have halves, dollar coins, or foreign money that they can give you in change?
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,163 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Thats how I got mine Creg

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,222 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I haven't received one in change in more than 30 years.

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    jedmjedm Posts: 3,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Where I'm at they are given in change at the movie theater and the racetrack. It's been a while since I've been to the track but I frequent the theater regularly. I can't recall getting one in change anywhere else in a very long time.

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    lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not since the early 1980s...

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    clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Our local movie theater likes to give out half dollars in change. Problem is I usually just use my debit card.

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,957 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can't remember the last time I received one in circulation. I have taken them to the bank to deposit.

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    shortnockshortnock Posts: 525 ✭✭✭✭

    Have given out many in change...receive only from bank.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Last time I went to the race track. They charged a nominal 50 cents admission so they could control who got in, and for your dollar bill you got a half dollar change. Immediately past the turnstile was someone selling programs… for 50 cents.

    All bet payouts were made in 10 cent increments. Rather than use Quarters, they paid out in half dollars and dimes.

    Last time I was at the track I was with my first wife, who passed away in 2010, so it’s been a while.

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    SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,266 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Last month
    Flying under the radar I paid cash for an Anniversary card at Safeway
    Got a JFK

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,163 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I used to get them at the hot dog stand years ago. It changed owners and they dont do it anymore

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    Pretty much zero in the wild these days. Bank runs are really the only reliable way to catch them.

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,768 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I haven't received any denomination of coin for many years since I use a credit card for all payments. Even vending machines and parking meters take credit cards.

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    Only if I go to the recycler. Then I get $2's and Kennedy half dollars.

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    124Spider124Spider Posts: 1,273 ✭✭✭✭✭

    60 years ago, it was common. But I haven't seen a half dollar in circulation in decades.

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    USSID18USSID18 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭✭

    As often as I get small dollar coins in circulation, never!

    You gotta ask yourself why they were even minted? I know why.... For us collectors! 😂 😉

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    goldengolden Posts: 10,541 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not in several decades.

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