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Walking Liberty half dollars were favorites of mine from the time I started collecting in the 1960's. In my early days of collecting I pulled everything from pocket change and Walkers were by then almost never found, but my dad and my grandparents gifted me quite a few well-circulated examples to get me started. Here are my three favorites from my mint and proof type sets.   
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Super examples!  |
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But the wear line shows up rather ugly on examples in less than in less than about EF-40, and thus I consider a design weakness. I can see your point, sel_69l, but I think a well-circulated Walker still has a lot of character. It's probably a sentimental thing and harkens back to when I was a kid and all I had were some heavily-worn Walkers and I absolutely loved them. I just remember holding them and being amazed by the beauty of the design, even in their worn condition. |
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Here are my three favorites from my mint and proof type sets. Those are Beautiful examples!  smat |
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Here are my three favorites from my mint and proof type sets. An outstanding group! |
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Okay, gonna try again to upload my birth year (1941) halves. Let's see if I can get it right this time.  |
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Ah ha!!! Got it this time. Now I can load the rest of them.   And now the "With AW" and "Without AW" ones.     |
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Okay, gonna try again to upload my birth year (1941) halves. Let's see if I can get it right this time. Quote:
Got it this time. Now I can load the rest of them. Outstanding!   |
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How much did you spend on them? Or did you find them?
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Nice birth year set, kanga!
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How much did you spend on them? Or did you find them? According to my records: 1941 MS-65 NGC 150.00 1941 D MS-65 NGC 150.00 1941 S MS-65 NGC 79.00 1941 Proof No AW PF-65 NGC 465.00 1941 Proof AW PF-66 NGC 600.00 Edited by kanga
03/30/2023 09:20 am
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@kanga that's an amazing set of Walkers!
The coins from my birth year (1978) are not quite as interesting, I'm afraid.
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Here is another one of my 1943's. I picked this coin up back when you could still find "rattler" holders for very reasonable prices (try that now.) This is a PCGS Gen 1.2 holder (1986-1989), the most commonly-seen "rattler." Also common for these, the pale-green color of the cardboard insert has faded to mostly white. Nowadays this might have a good shot to make 64 at least but the holder is worth more than the upgrade would add in value if I were to resubmit it.    Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse
03/30/2023 7:50 pm
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Here is another Walker: a 1944-S in a scarce PCGS Gen 2.1 holder, MS 63. This holder was used for only 3 months in 1989 and is a scarcer "transitional" holder between the famous "doily" holders and the later "OGH" one-piece holders. It has the perforated label and two-piece holder. It does not have the "PCGS" logo at the top of the label. Photographing this coin is slightly tricky because it has some areas of semi-prooflike luster and is not flush/even within the inner ring, being slightly angled downwards at the top of the ring (the result is a "shadow" effect as seen at the upper left near "BER".)   Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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