Made of 90% silver, the coin is worth far more than its face value of 50 cents. In fact, some Franklin half-dollar values can be in the thousands. Although the face value of a Ben Franklin half ...

It features a profile of Franklin on the front and the Liberty Bell on the reverse. The Franklin Half Dollar is popular for .

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 ...

Franklin half dollars were issued from 1948 through 1963, according to the Gainesville Coins website. They were the last U.S. half dollar series struck entirely in 90% silver. The Kennedy half ...