The mint began selling gold 24-karat Kennedy half-dollars, dated 1964 and 2014, at 10 a.m. for $1,240 each. But because they're one per customer, coin dealers paid people to stand in line so they ...

Hallenbeck buys Eagles at his Colorado Springs store, Hallenbeck Coin Gallery Inc., for about 4 percent above the mint’s cost and sells them for 5 percent above that cost, he said.