If the coin has any wear, the value is for the silver, about $12.00
A 1954 US half dollar has a bust of Ben Franklin on the obverse, not Miss Liberty. Franklin half's are common, if it shows any wear the value is just for the silver about $10.00.
Please check your coin again. It's either not 1954 or not a Walking Liberty half. Halves dated 1916-47 carried the Walking Liberty design. Benjamin Franklin's image was on the half dollar from 1948 to 1963.
If it has one, it's on the reverse above the bell.
There's no such coin. JFK was (a) a Senator in 1954 and (b) very much alive so his picture couldn't be on a coin. If you have a 1954 half dollar it has a picture of BEN FRANKLIN, who (c) lived in the 18th century and (d) was a lot older and A LOT balder than JFK!
7-26-11>>> The coin is a Franklin half dollar (1948-1963) and these half dollars are not rare or even scarce, if the coin has any wear at all value is just for the silver about $14.00.
The date, 1954, will be on the front and the mintmark, D, on the back above the Liberty Bell.
Half a dollar is fifty cents.
a half dollar looks like a dollar cut in half
The 1954-D Cent value range is = for a worn, poor quality, 3¢, to a like-new, Non "cleaned" cent, about half a dollar.
half a dollar
I can think of several, although only one is still made today Half dollar ("half dollar" - "half" = "dollar") Half cent Half dime Half eagle That was simple.
A US half dollar with a date of 1979 is a Kennedy half dollar not a liberty half dollar. The coin has no silver and is only face value.