1916 50C Walking Liberty Half Dollar PCGS MS66 (CAC)

Here is a greatly desired first-year issue of the Walking Liberty half dollar to include in your collection. Please take a careful look at the images provided of this coin that carry Adolph A. Weinman’s beautiful design. Then imagine owning it, calling it your own. The 1916 has a low mintage of 608,000. PCGS has graded 109 in MS66, with 19 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $7,250.00 in MS66. In CAC, there are 41 in MS66 with just 4 finer. CAC gives the 1916 Walker a price of $6,750.00 in MS66.

Adolph A. Weinman at work in his New York City studio, circa 1917. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Renowned numismatic art critic and scholar Cornelius Vermeule writes of this beautiful coin, "The debt to Roty's Sower is obvious, but the Liberty Walking design is an original creation, not a slavish copy. This half dollar, one of the greatest coins of the United States--if not the world--is as modern as official sculpture can ever be. It has the combination of naturalism, classicism, and dignified inner balance, a generally suave figure style in the midst of traditional poses, costumes, and attributes, ... paralleling the highest level of commemorative art engendered by the First World War."