The 25 Days Of Walking Liberty Half Dollars!! (Iii)

Thanks muddler ...

When I see them like that I try to pick them up.

Looks better in hand ...

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The LWH dollars really took a beating if they circulated for more than a few years. I do remember collecting them as a kid in 1950's and they were widely available but almost all were in barely good condition and most had little detail except maybe a full date if you were lucky. Unless coins were plucked out of circulation almost the same year they were minted they got wiped smooth. I have a set of Walkers and Benjamin's and it is easy to get Walkers from mid to late 40's and almost all Benjamin halves in really great condition. You go back beyond early 1929 and forget it. I almost never see really fine examples of Walkers from before 1930 at LCS. I see many in good condition even from early years in the sense that you can read the dates. I got 38-D in VF for $100. The LWH is a coin that to me is more attractive than Morgan dollar IMO, and a lot more affordable if you want a complete set of coins in VF or above condition. Unlike Morgans the LWH dollars circulated by and large. They are like the Mercury dimes, LSQ's and Buffalo nickels. You can get a Morgan 138 years old for $300 in MS65. This is what attracts people to Morgans I think. They are a freakish coin since so many just sat in bank vaults and were minted as a boon to silver mining lobby way back in the day. So our government was just as corrupt then as it is now.