Is 2008 the last year for Kennedy Halves?

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• YaHa Posts: 4,220 ✭

  October 7, 2008 6:49AM

  Yes it's true, all coins are going to stop. The US is out of money so how can we continue to make more.

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• duck620 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 6:51AM

  no.2009 kennedys will appear again.

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• doh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 6:58AM

  I did a little searching on the US Mint website and various news databases and found no mention of discontinuing the Kennedy Half, so I would assume the mint will continue cranking them out.
  
  

  Positive BST transactions with: too many names to list! 36 at last count.

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• SilverHaze Posts: 509

  October 7, 2008 7:20AM

  Thanks everyone, you've answered my question ... I think?

  As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. ~Zachary Scott <>
  Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ~Frank Scully

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• rjsriv Posts: 256

  October 7, 2008 9:22AM

  We can only hope--that is a FUGLY COIN--the SBA ,Shriver Commem and Ike are the only ones uglier

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 44,042 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 11:27AM

  I have a possibly dumb question in the same vein... what about the quarters, once the add-on territories are done, now that the states have run their course? Do we go back to the old eagle reverse in 2010, or something else?
  
  And the cents, once next years commems are done? I guess the cents might go the way of the dinosaur.
  
  For that matter, I haven't kept up with the nickels ever since the commems on those a few years ago.
  
  I am woefully underinformed on the newer stuff, having spent most of my time looking back rather thinking much about current or future coins.

  Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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• SUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭

  October 7, 2008 11:40AM

  am woefully underinformed on the newer stuff, having spent most of my time looking back rather thinking much about current or future coins.
  
  Very understandable, I cannot imagine the amount of time it takes to be a World Numismatist......Lord.......give yourself a break, sit down and crack open a roll of Lincolns..relax!
  
  All kidding aside, I'm amazed that anyone could keep up with World Coins, I have so many books spread around my work area that they make a path in a otherwise open room,
  
  And I have not even touched the surface of 1/4 of the US coins in this century.....Lord M....

  coins on ebay

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• adamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 11:43AM

  With world coinage as broad and diverse as it is...
  
  I would imagine that sometimes LordMarcovan feels like a 'whirled numismatist'.
  
  
  (rimshot)

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• pendragon1998 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 11:50AM

  
  
  << <i>I have a possibly dumb question in the same vein... what about the quarters, once the add-on territories are done, now that the states have run their course? Do we go back to the old eagle reverse in 2010, or something else?
  
  And the cents, once next years commems are done? I guess the cents might go the way of the dinosaur.
  
  For that matter, I haven't kept up with the nickels ever since the commems on those a few years ago.
  
  I am woefully underinformed on the newer stuff, having spent most of my time looking back rather thinking much about current or future coins. >>
  
  
  
  
  I believe they're trying to get the National Parks quarter series passed.

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• Swampboy Posts: 13,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 11:55AM

  
  
  << <i>give yourself a break, sit down and crack open a roll of Lincolns..relax! >>
  
  
  
  
  
  kind of pathetic but
  
  
  
  
  

  "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 44,042 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 12:00PM

  I'll abide by the doctor's orders. Have several unopened rolls of BU Wheaties I have been meaning to peek at. Not OBWs or anything- just plastic tubes I got in a deal months ago. One is all 1951-D. Another is mixed, and that is the one that intrigues me. I pulled a monster toned 1944 off the end.
  
  So I'll do some Lincoln-lookin'.
  
  As to keeping up with the entire world, nobody could probably do that. That's what the Krause catalogs are for.

  Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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