For a relatively brief period of sixteen years (1948 to 1963), founding father Benjamin Franklin appeared on American fifty-cent pieces. The Franklin half-dollar, made of silver, replaced the well-liked but hard-to-strike walking Liberty half-dollar that had been in place since 1916.
The reverse of the Franklin half-dollar showed the Liberty Bell, complete with crack in the bell, and a small eagle to the right and E PLURIBUS UNUM to the left. The Franklin half-dollar was discontinued following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who would become the subsequent subject of the U.S. fifty-cent piece.
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