1942 Walking Liberty Half Dollar Proof : History & Value

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes …..
 

The United States Mint produced 27,500 Proof Strolling Liberty Half {Dollars} in 1942. Of that whole, 76.8% handed the Medal Division’s inspection and have been delivered to the United States Mint Cashier. 120 have been held again for Assay and destroyed. This left 21,000 Proof 1942 Strolling Liberty half {dollars} obtainable on the market. Whereas a low quantity by at the moment’s requirements, the mintage of this 1942 Proof was a document as much as that time. To strike the cash, the Mint employed 12 obverse dies, which have been married with 9 reverse dies. Manufacturing ran from January via to the top of the yr.

The 1942 Strolling Liberty Half Greenback Proof dies have been made utilizing the Strolling Liberty Half Greenback’s fourth hub. This hub was launched in 1938 to strengthen the incuse design particulars. The everyday 1942 Proof is effectively struck and, if unimpaired, is totally good. With time, many examples have toned to numerous levels.

A minuscule variety of cash from this difficulty will exhibit Cameo frost on the units. Analysis carried out by numismatist Roger Burdette signifies that there have been 5 situations the place cash have been struck with contemporary obverse and reverse dies and {that a} potential of as much as 175 Cameo Proofs might have been struck in 1942 if all the required circumstances have been met.

With the United States getting into World Conflict II, the Mint would droop manufacturing of Proof Units till after the warfare. By the point Proof coinage resumed, the Strolling Liberty Half Greenback design had been changed by the Franklin kind.

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Market Knowledge and Noteworthy Specimens

High Inhabitants: PCGS PR69 (1, 10/2024), NGC PF69 (8, 10/2024), and CAC PF68 (51:2 stickered:graded, 10/2024).

• PCGS PR68+ CAC #05283555: Stack’s Bowers, August 16, 2023, Lot 5044 – $12,000.
• NGC PF68 #8207937-006: Heritage Auctions, August 18, 2024, Lot 7356 – $1,560. Golden firming all through.
• PCGS PR68 #50389574: Heritage Auctions, August 12, 2024, Lot 3556 – $6,600. Bullseye rainbow firming on each side.
• PCGS PR68 #37499068: “The Kestrel Assortment,” Heritage Auctions, August 12, 2024, Lot 3557 – $3,360. Sensible.
• NGC PF68 #8207979-010: Heritage Auctions, June 16, 2024, Lot 7103 – $1,740. Latte firming all through.
• NGC PF68 #3904043-002: Heritage Auctions, June 16, 2024, Lot 7104 – $2,040.
• NGC PF68* #3814891-001: Stack’s Bowers, March 2017, Lot 4064; “The Larry Stendebach Assortment,” Stack’s Bowers, March 26, 2024, Lot 4151 – $16,800. Practically cameo. Black and white.
• PCGS PR68 #44274350: “The George Schwenk Assortment,” Stack’s Bowers, August 16, 2023, Lot 4027 – $3,360. Scattered gold and russet firming.
• NGC PF68 #6059032-010: Heritage Auctions, July 20, 2023, Lot 3595 – $2,160.
• NGC PF68 #4879758-001: Stack’s Bowers, August 13, 2019, Lot 1357 – $1,440.
• NGC PF68*: “The George Gardner Assortment,” Stack’s Bowers, November 6, 2013, Lot 655 – $2,350. Darkish gold firming across the decrease periphery.
• NGC PF68: “The George Gardner Assortment,” Stack’s Bowers, November 6, 2013, Lot 656 – $2,173.75.
• NGC PF68: “The George Gardner Assortment,” Stack’s Bowers, November 6, 2013, Lot 656 – $2,232.50. Sensible.

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1942 Strolling Liberty Half Greenback Proof Coin Specs

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