Kennedy half dollars are too big and bulky, and dollar coins have never caught on with the public. Bank tellers and cashiers dislike them even more. Modern bank drawers have no space for either half dollars or dollar coins, forcing them to be crammed into the spot where coin rolls go, ...
(Gasparro also was the reverse designer of the Kennedy half dollar.) The reverse design shows an eagle landing on the moon carrying an olive branch, the artist's take on the official insignia of the Apollo 11 mission. The first Eisenhower dollars were new coins struck in 1971. Cupro-nickel...