What Is A 1971 Kennedy Half Dollar Made Of? John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. As a way to honor his death, a new half ...

The US Mint initially made this coin with a composition consisting of 90% silver. Specimens with it’s intricate design well ...

Do you want to get into coin collecting? Some of the most expensive coins ever sold at auction were minted in the U.S., many ...

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Investors can also buy so-called junk silver coins. Prior to 1965, dimes, quarters and half-dollars issued by the U.S. Mint contained large quantities of silver. While many of the coins have no ...

The only Kennedy half designed for circulation that contained any silver at all was the 1970 Kennedy Half Dollar, the last of the regular-strike silver-clad half dollars.