The conditionally challenged 1917-S Reverse Mintmark Walking Liberty Half Dollar issue is a much rarer Walking Liberty half dollar in the finer Mint State grades than a sizable mintage of 5.5 million pieces might imply. This is a second-year issue in its series, which means that it benefited from neither the first-year status of the 1916 issues nor the more advanced numismatic activity of the 1940s, both of which resulted in the saving of greater numbers of Mint State coins. Scarce even in MS-64, the extant population of the 1917-S Reverse Mintmark in Gem Uncirculated dwindles down to fewer than 100 distinct survivors, among which the present PCGS/CAC MS-65+ is one of the finest.

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The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in November 2012 Sale, where it realized $20,562.50.