Author: Alyssa Miller
Alyssa Miller
Alyssa Miller is a writer, editor, and educator with a passion for entertainment and pop culture. She graduated from the University of San Francisco with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in Communications. Before graduating, Alyssa worked as a freelance entertainment and film education writer, contributing to a variety of publications, including Britain’s First Frame Magazine. She also continued to write short stories and screenplays in her free time.
What do Bug Bunny, the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated characters, and Benjamin Franklin, the American polymathic writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and politician, have in common? The two American figures would have very little in common if it weren’t for an error in the U.S. Mint that created the “Bugs Bunny” Franklin Half Dollar. The 1956 50C “Bugs Bunny” FS-401, which is part of the Franklin Half Dollar series from 1948 to 1963, was given this odd name after the eagle’s wings on the reverse side “impressed the obverse die in the region of Franklin’s mouth,”…