Struck during the final year of World War II, the 1945 Walking Liberty Half Dollar is the last of the high mintage half dollar issues in the Walking Liberty "short set" of 1941 to 1947. The 31.5 million-piece issue has provided an abundance of Mint State coins, and even more selective numismatists should be able to procure an attractive MS-67 with a modicum of patience. This issue is a noteworthy rarity in PCGS MS-67+, while in PCGS MS-68 the coin is both unrivaled and unsurpassed.

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The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in June 2021 as part of the Lulu Collection, the #1 all-time finest PCGS Walking Liberty Half Dollar Short Set, where it realized $66,000.