That circulated Kennedy 50 cent piece with inflation is the same spending power it had in ‘67. Having it as a curiosity is worth nothing.
Recently, one of my customers gave me a book about Gustov Stickley furniture. This is because he was his great grandfather.
As I was looking through the book I saw a dining room sideboard that looked a lot like the one we had left in my moms basement in WHY.
There also was a library table that also looked a lot like the one my mother had refinished with this “antiquing paint” back in the in 1970s.
We left a lot of furniture in the house when we sold it after my moms death at 92.
I first became interested in coins around 1946 when my father brought home coins he collected for his insurance company from people who paid him monthly for their dime & qurter policies. He would give me the old coins and replace them with his own newer coins before turning them in. I still have them, Barber coins, Walking Liberties, V nickels, Indian Head pennies. I bought a house in late 1960s. There was an old rectangular side table with a top that rotated on its frame so you could see inside. It contained maybe 10 silver dollars. I recently found the bag of “junk” silver dimes my mother had bought a while before she died in the mid 1990s. There are somewhere between 1500 and 2000 Mercury and Roosevelt dimes. She bought them at a time when silver was selling for under $4 an ounce. Recently silver has been selling for around $30 an ounce. I have checked a random 50 dimes for quality and they range from Good-8 at $3 a coin to Extremely Fine-40 around $5 a coin a few of the most recent Roosevelt dimes from the early 1960s still have their Mint Lustre, so may fall in one of the Uncirculated-60 or higher categories. Now if I can just get a recent copy of the Red Book of coin values. My old one is from the 1990s. but it is still useful for checking the quality and relative rarity of silver coins.
As to the value of my half dozen JFK 1/2 dollars, I grabbed them as soon as they came out so they were minimally circulated. If most of my silver dimes are now worth $3 to $5 my JFKs must be worth more than $25 each. My partner asked what I wanted for Christmas. I said a new copy of the Red Book, hope, hope, hope!