A key date issue for its type in circulated grades, the 1919-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar has a mintage of just 1,552,000 pieces. In Mint State it is the second rarest issue in this series after the 1921-S (per Jeff Ambio, Collecting & Investing Strategies for Walking Liberty Half Dollars, 2008). Most survivors grade no finer than MS-64 due to impaired luster, numerous wispy abrasions and excessive softness of strike in the prime focal areas.

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The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in The Larry H. Miller Collection, where it realized $48,000.