Set report · United States · Half Dollars
Franklin Half Dollar: Who Owns What
How often each Franklin Half Dollar coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 2,190 collectors of this set have one. Coins are graded from Common to Extremely scarce against the set's most-owned coin — a measure of collecting frequency, not of how many survive.
Hardest to find in real collections
The five least-owned coins of the set — ownership counts are collector-reported.
…and the ones everybody has
Full set: ownership & rarity, coin by coin
Values by grade for each of these live on the Franklin Half Dollar catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 3,006,814 | 591 | 27% | Uncommon |
| 1948-D | 4,028,600 | 555 | 25.3% | Uncommon |
| 1949 | 5,614,000 | 576 | 26.3% | Uncommon |
| 1949-D | 4,120,600 | 510 | 23.3% | Uncommon |
| 1949-S | 3,744,000 | 499 | 22.8% | Uncommon |
| 1950 | 7,742,123 | 610 | 27.9% | Uncommon |
| 1950 (Proof) | 51,386 | 38 | 1.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1950-D | 8,031,600 | 530 | 24.2% | Uncommon |
| 1951 | 16,802,102 | 730 | 33.3% | Common |
| 1951 (Proof) | 57,500 | 42 | 1.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1951-D | 9,475,200 | 541 | 24.7% | Uncommon |
| 1951-S | 13,696,000 | 590 | 26.9% | Uncommon |
| 1952 | 21,192,093 | 782 | 35.7% | Common |
| 1952 (Proof) | 81,980 | 42 | 1.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1952-D | 25,395,600 | 690 | 31.5% | Uncommon |
| 1952-S | 5,526,000 | 467 | 21.3% | Scarce |
| 1953 | 2,668,120 | 526 | 24% | Uncommon |
| 1953 (Proof) | 128,800 | 43 | 2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1953-D | 20,900,400 | 634 | 28.9% | Uncommon |
| 1953-S | 4,148,000 | 436 | 19.9% | Scarce |
| 1954 | 13,188,202 | 694 | 31.7% | Uncommon |
| 1954 (Proof) | 233,300 | 52 | 2.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1954-D | 25,445,580 | 686 | 31.3% | Uncommon |
| 1954-S | 4,993,400 | 463 | 21.1% | Scarce |
| 1955 | 2,498,181 | 490 | 22.4% | Uncommon |
| 1955 (Proof) | 378,200 | 64 | 2.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1956 | 4,032,000 | 502 | 22.9% | Uncommon |
| 1956 (Proof) | 669,384 | 71 | 3.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1957 | 5,114,000 | 582 | 26.6% | Uncommon |
| 1957 (Proof) | 1,247,952 | 89 | 4.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1957-D | 19,966,850 | 644 | 29.4% | Uncommon |
| 1958 | 4,042,000 | 572 | 26.1% | Uncommon |
| 1958 (Proof) | 875,652 | 84 | 3.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1958-D | 23,962,412 | 710 | 32.4% | Common |
| 1959 | 6,200,000 | 571 | 26.1% | Uncommon |
| 1959 (Proof) | 1,149,291 | 92 | 4.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1959-D | 13,053,750 | 583 | 26.6% | Uncommon |
| 1960 | 6,024,000 | 613 | 28% | Uncommon |
| 1960 (Proof) | 1,691,602 | 108 | 4.9% | Very scarce |
| 1960-D | 18,215,812 | 628 | 28.7% | Uncommon |
| 1961 | 8,290,000 | 681 | 31.1% | Uncommon |
| 1961 (Proof) | 3,028,244 | 122 | 5.6% | Very scarce |
| 1961 Doubled Die (Proof Error) | — | 16 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1961-D | 20,276,442 | 635 | 29% | Uncommon |
| 1962 | 9,714,000 | 728 | 33.2% | Common |
| 1962 (Proof) | 3,218,019 | 114 | 5.2% | Very scarce |
| 1962-D | 35,473,281 | 737 | 33.7% | Common |
| 1963 | 22,164,000 | 937 | 42.8% | Common |
| 1963 (Proof) | 3,075,645 | 121 | 5.5% | Very scarce |
| 1963-D | 67,069,292 | 927 | 42.3% | Common |
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Based on the share of this set's collectors who own each coin — how often it turns up in a collection, not how many survive. Not the Sheldon rarity scale.
About these numbers
Ownership counts come from the same live per-coin counters shown across the LuckyCoin catalog; set-level collector counts come from the annual full-collection scan behind The State of Coin Collecting 2026. Counts are collector-reported and aggregate-only. Scarcity tiers come from 100 × (1 − owners ÷ owners of the set's most-owned coin): Common under 25, Uncommon 25–49, Scarce 50–74, Very scarce 75–89, Extremely scarce 90+. This reflects how often a coin is collected, not its surviving population — it is not the Sheldon rarity scale. CC BY 4.0 with attribution.