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<p>[QUOTE="fish4uinmd, post: 2312191, member: 74335"]The only mention of it that I can find is in Wikipedia...</p><p><br /></p><p>There are few varieties in the series, and they are relatively minor. They principally involve the mint mark: several repunchings, <i><b>one overpunching of a D over an S in 1942</b></i>, and some changes in size. One oddity is the 1943/1942, which is not a true overdate but was formed by a working die struck once from a 1942-dated master die, and once from one dated 1943.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Liberty_half_dollar#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreen1988412-28" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Liberty_half_dollar#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreen1988412-28" rel="nofollow">[27]</a> Some 1946 half dollars show a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubled_die" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubled_die" rel="nofollow">doubled die</a> on the reverse.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Liberty_half_dollar#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuthGarrett200595-52" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Liberty_half_dollar#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuthGarrett200595-52" rel="nofollow">[50]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="fish4uinmd, post: 2312191, member: 74335"]The only mention of it that I can find is in Wikipedia... There are few varieties in the series, and they are relatively minor. They principally involve the mint mark: several repunchings, [I][B]one overpunching of a D over an S in 1942[/B][/I], and some changes in size. One oddity is the 1943/1942, which is not a true overdate but was formed by a working die struck once from a 1942-dated master die, and once from one dated 1943.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Liberty_half_dollar#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreen1988412-28'][27][/URL] Some 1946 half dollars show a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubled_die']doubled die[/URL] on the reverse.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Liberty_half_dollar#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuthGarrett200595-52'][50][/URL][/QUOTE]
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