Question On No Aw Walker

Thanks, That is a possibility.

Have Fun,
Bill

I looked thru several hundred of those walking halfs to look for missing initials. The regular initials are so deep, that it is very difficult to have any other conclusion. That sure looks like a hit to me!

I'm surprised though, only thought it was in 1945 when they had missing initials.

biokemist 6,

Since the initials on a struck coin are incuse, it would be that the initials would be raised on the die. The initials are actually pretty deep on the struck coin so they would have to be pretty high on the die.

I think that if there was enough die polishing in the area to remove the initials all together that there would be a lot of deep die polish marks or a depression where the initials used to be.

What actually happens on the two feather nickels and coins like the three legged buffaloes, is that the die dressing removes the edges (outlines) of the feather or the leg from the die. Those edges are pretty shallow. As soon as the edges that define the feather or the leg is removed from the die, the struck coins will be missing a feather or a leg.

Since the initials are pretty high on the die on a walker, it would be pretty tough to dress them away and leave the surrounding area so untouched.


Just some thoughts...

I lean toward this one being a good one:-)

Have Fun,
Bill

Its not worth grading with respect to condition. I can send it to John Bordner, or John Wexler, or Ken Potter, for an attribution as opposed to a slabber for grading and maybe an attribution. John Bordner is keeping track of halves the last I heard:-)so probably email him and see if he needs to see it.

I found the reference in Breens it is Breens # 5193 ,,and references the 1942-S.

at the time of printing they were considered Ex rare,, and attributed as excessive die relapping to remove clash marks .

it appears that it was not the first or the last time that it occured within the walker series .

Metalman

hello guys I'm a half freak as most around me know. I have a set of Kennedy's and a set of Franklin's I'm just missing the 55 & 56 bugs bunny pieces. walking liberty all but 21 p&d ill have them in march or April of 08 and now you are telling me there are more walker I need to add to me set. oooooooohhhhhh!yes lol... I picked up a 1929-s and 1943-s so far and I'm looking at a 1945-p I would like to get a sub set together of these if possible I know there is a 1916-d I read about it in Coin World. can any one tell what mark up could be or would be on these pieces I'm not a seller I just collect they go to my kids and I need to keep them insured

Hi Bill, I found this same coin with no AW about 15 yrs. ago. I'm 99% sure it was also a 43 S. I'll have to try to dig it out and post a photo.

In Breen it is # 5200; he says at present extremely rare, 6 reported! Well, with yours and mine, now that makes 8!

I remember being really excited when I found this and happened to be at a coin show. I showed it to a variety expert I recognized, and his quote was, "well sometimes finding a collector of something like this is more difficult than finding the coin!"
But, I sure didn't throw it away.