OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

[Chuck Guzis]

On 6/28/19 9:57 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what
>>> it was for.

The big failure of the Susan B. Anthony coin was that it was about the
same size (slightly different shape) as a quarter-dollar coin, causing
people to mistake them as such on occasion.

It was *extremely* unpopular.

FWIW, I just checked my "loose change" container that sits atop my
bedroom dresser.  There were two Kennedy half-dollars--one from 1968 and
the other from 1983.  I suspect that a great many are still in
circulation.

--Chuck