a few changes in letter size — but nothing of real significance until it was replaced after a 31-year run with the Benjamin ...

Its larger size means it requires more metal per coin, which directly bumps up manufacturing costs. Yet, the quarter remains ... the Mint counts as profit. Half-dollar coins are some of the ...

The Kennedy half dollar was first minted in 1964 in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — the coin’s obvious namesake. It was a commemorative issuance made in Kennedy ...