President John F Kennedy is getting his old look back on new collectors' coins.

The slain president's profile debuted on the half dollar coin some 50 years ago, and the image was subtly tweaked and sharpened in the 1990s. Now the US Mint is producing collectors' coins that restore the original 1964 design, which incorporated suggestions from a grieving Jacqueline Kennedy.

Gold coins being stamped at the mint's West Point plant this week portray JFK's famously tousled head of hair a bit fluffier, his parting is less severe and his cheeks less chiselled than on the half dollar discontinued in 2001.

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