The Kennedy half dollar is perhaps one of the most famous coins today, though its birth had a terribly unfortunate cause, and that was the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Ever since the first Kennedy half dollars rolled off the United States Mint presses in 1964, the coin has been immensely popular.
In fact, widespread hoarding of the coin in the mid-1960s by individuals who wanted a memento of the fallen president is believed by many numismatists to be the reason the half dollar denomination doesn’t circulate well today. People habitually began keeping Kennedy half dollars, and thus the half dollar soon no longer circulated