Gilroy Roberts needed a few weeks to finish the new design with Kennedy on the obverse. Only several months took for Congress to pass a law and cancel the previous half-dollars’ production. Quickly after that horrifying day, the US Mint issued the Kennedy half-dollar in 1964. Unfortunately, the design with Franklin was short-lived because of President John F.
This imaginary woman disappeared from the American coinage in 1947 when Benjamin Franklin’s image replaced it on this coin type. The first silver American half dollars occurred in circulation in 1794 with Lady Liberty on the obverse.
You can see that letter below the neck truncation on the coin obverse. American coinage produced in the Philadelphia mint from this year got the P mint mark. These coins were the first struck after one change in the US Mint politics in 1980. The mintage of coins from the first year in the 1980s was the highest in the decade, affecting the 1980 half dollar value and availability. The Kennedy halves were issued from 1964 to the present, and the initial reason for their appearance was the assassination of the 35th American President.
