"You should have sold the Kennedy half-dollars to a collector.
The fat old man might have looked pissed, but he was secretly thanking whatever gods he prays to, because you just financed his Carribean cruise later this year.
Just putting that out there...
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Kennedy Half Dollars (most of them) are not worth more than 50 cents. I am a little ocd, and i like getting unusual denominations when i cash my pay check at the bank. I try to get as many 2$ bills, kennedy half dollars, susan b's, (not the ugly sacajawea... a word i cannot spell correctly, but i CAN pronounce correctly. correctly pronounced: suh-kog-way-uh). the bank usually has like 20 dollars in half dollars, tehn 10 dollars in susan b's. all half dollars made after 1970 are made mostly of other metals than silver, where as 1970 and earlier, are all silver. in all my years of getting half dollars, i've gotten only 3 silver half dollars. those i've kept (because the metal alone is worth alot). collectors take the rest of the good ones out of circulation. i like the susan b antony coins because of the moon on the back, which i feel is humanity's greatest triumph. i like the kennedy coins because they are hefty and feel good in your hand and the eagle on the back is cool. i enjoy two dollar bills because i get to tell people about how the illustration on the back is a fabrication of an event that never happened, its main stream american propaganda (dec. of ind. was signed over a period of months, not everyone all in a room).
above all these reasons, i am sort of a bitch i guess, and i get a kick out of watching people in sales jobs having to deal with currency they rarely if ever see, in quantities they NEVER see.
and the cool part is, sometimes i get lucky and get a rare coin from the bank , like silver half dollars. (i've never gotten a franklin half dollar, which is who was on the half dollar before JFK got KIA) .... but sometimes...... i get super lucky, like i did two weeks ago, and got a EISENHOWER DOLLAR, which is a coin the size of a dolls saucer. its great, it feels like you could throw it at something and do some damage
and a few months ago i got a 2$ federal reserve note (or treasury note, i forget, whichever is different than what money usually is). there used to be all kinds of different bills, with different colors and seals, but then by like 1960 there was only green money. i've got a two dollar bill with blue on it, its badass. there were also silver and gold backed notes up until the 40s i believe,b ut ive never seen one of those.
you can thank me later for the lesson in trivial coin related information
