½ Dollar "Franklin Half Dollar" obverse½ Dollar "Franklin Half Dollar" reverse
United States

½ Dollar "Franklin Half Dollar" · “Franklin Half Dollar

United States · 1948–1963 · Silver

The coin

The story

The Franklin Half Dollar

For sixteen years, Americans carried Benjamin Franklin and a cracked Liberty Bell in their pockets. It is the only regular U.S. coin to honor a Founding Father who was never president — and the art board nearly killed it over that crack.

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