1943 Walking Liberty Proof ? I read there non exsistent well what is this ? A PROOF!!

Hey everyone I have had this coin fpr many years . I was going thru some coin last night .so I pull out this 1943 walking liberty coin. , I said wow look at this POP . I know and have read there are no 1943 walking liberty proofs . Please tell me what I have
Thanks

 

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can't tell anything from those photos. It is most likely polished and would get a Bus. Strike details grade.

 

Not a proof. The entire coin is shiny. A proof would not look this way. The raised areas would not be shiny. This coin is damaged as it's been polished.

 

Meow thinks so too. The high wear points like the hand and the leg are flat. No chest feathers on the reverse too.

 

Lol

 

you asked ....
Yes, I agree with the above.
Highly polished. When someone highly polishes a coin you lose fine details which get rounded in a sense. Compare it to a more crusted looking one and look at the fine details.

 

If a coin is made in 1943, and for 76 years, collectors have agreed that a proof strike doesn't exist. It doesn't exist

 

Lol. I I. Sir

 

If "shiny" meant "proof", I'd be at home with a rag and some polish "proofing up" all sorts of coins.

 

Proof 1801-1803 Dollars? They are more rare than the 1804!

 

Assuming all photos are the same coin, the one in the flip reveals the curved edge whereas a proof has right angle edges and is not off center, so I would go business strike. Jim

 

Really going out on a limb there for a 1943 coin, aren't we?

Or maybe there was a top-secret Allied plan to re-introduce proof strikes in 1943, and all the records of die preparation, planchet preparation, striking, and distribution were carefully destroyed. No evidence left at all, except for this coin -- which unfortunately had its edges rounded, and was circulated, and then was polished. So they almost managed to cover their tracks!

 

That is definitely not a proof. Take a look at the lack of detail on the high points of the design.

 

Its to be expected as they didn't have YouTube or CoinTalk and the Redbook was 3 years away! Even Doug wasn't born yet How could they succeed?

 

Heavily polished business strike. Sorry.