1942 S Walking Liberty Half Dollar...missing Initials?

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Bezo816 Valued Member United States 131 Posts	Posted 05/30/2018 09:11 am I was going through my Walkers, and found this 42 S Half that is missing the initials. Problem is, there are no other 42' S listed with missing initials..am I missing something? As always, thank you for your time. Report this Post to the Staff

drdave Pillar of the Community United States 721 Posts	Posted 05/31/2018 12:50 am Polished die? Report this Post to the Staff
Bezo816 Valued Member United States 131 Posts	Posted 05/31/2018 3:34 pm Like it has been polished over? Report this Post to the Staff
drdave Pillar of the Community United States 721 Posts	Posted 05/31/2018 9:57 pm Yes. Check out this link for more info: https://www.NGCcoin.com/variety-plu...ollars/4738/ Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 06/01/2018 11:27 am The AW monogram is incuse on the coins and is in the field. Normally the field is the highest part of the die, but since the initials are incuse in the coin they have to be raised on the die. That makes the initials the highest feature on the dies, all out in the open. Any polishing done to the dies would tend to grind away the initials. Frankly I'm surprised missing inital WL halves are not more common than they are. I suspect they didn't do much die polishing on this series and simply replaced the dies more frequently when they clashed or sustained other damage. Report this Post to the Staff
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