The Denver Mint produced more than 135 million of this quarter. “Many collectors didn’t save rolls of higher mintage coins ... using real silver. That means a 1960 Ben Franklin half dollar ...

Beginning in 1965, the JFK coins were converted to cheaper copper-silver clad ... But a 20th century director of the U.S. Mint was a Franklin admirer and lobbied to have him on the 50-cent ...

It was the last $10 gold coin circulated in 1933, when President Franklin Roosevelt ordered ... because that’s when the U.S. Mint began getting silver from world markets to mint more Peace ...