One of the smaller effects of JFK’s assassination is that the government put his image on half dollar coins beginning in 1964. Those coins permanently replaced the Benjamin Franklin 50-cent ...

The Franklin Half Dollar is popular for several reasons, including its patriotic images and the fact that Benjamin Franklin himself graces the front. Franklin is also on the $100 bill, but chances ...

It’s what’s known as the “Bugs Bunny” Franklin Half Dollar and if you happen to run into one, you could really cash in, pocketing up to thousands of dollars ...

JFK would appear on the half-dollar. The US Mint quickly began to replace Benjamin Franklin with the fallen president. As coin production technology improved over the past half-century ...

A magnified photo shows a twenty shillings Pennsylvania note printed by Benjamin Franklin on August 10 ... when the federal government first authorized the printing of dollar bills called “greenbacks.