United States
½ Dollar "Walking Liberty Half Dollar" · “Walking Liberty Half Dollar”
United States · 1916–1947 · Silver
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The Walking Liberty Half Dollar
In 1916, the U.S. Mint threw out a design that had run for a quarter-century and replaced it with a half dollar so lovely that, seventy years later, it was brought back from the dead to carry the nation's silver bullion. The Walking Liberty is that coin.
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