Your question is impossible to be answered because of the definition of junk silver. Junk silver is a coin that is sold with minimum premium over the spot. That eliminates all the Flowing Hair, Draped Bust, Capped Bust, Liberty Seated and Barber half dollars. Some of the Walking Liberty are worth more than spot even in F4. So, a precise number of junk silver minted before 1965 is impossible to tell .
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Thank you @ronaldovelino for pointing out. [The power of steemit communities - Ronaldo is a very knowledgeable source about coin collecting.] Next time I will be more specific. I would like to know how many half dollars with JFK on the face. So that makes things easier. One year - 1964 roughly how many do you think are circulating nowadays?
In 1964 429,509,450 were minted, but it is impossible to know how many survived till today due to massive melts during the Hunt Brothers Affair (around 1980) when silver almost reached $50 an ounce.
273 milion minted only in philadelphia my dear brother.
This is what I found as well. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you for your comments on the other posts as well. I followed you and look forward to more of your input and learning from each other in the future.
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This resource states 273 million minted - but only at Philadelphia. If that is true it is pretty interesting. https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/series-detail.aspx?MVDetailID=11&Series=Kennedy-Half-Dollar
And thank you for bringing up the Hunt Brothers. Very interesting story.
156,205,446 coins were minted in Denver.
Oh good to know. Thank you for sharing knowledge.
Thanks for the information. I didnot know but just learned from u.