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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;torontokuba, post: 1883192, member: 56793&quot;]I have this 1943 Walker with a porous surface, raised lines, bumpy as heck, etc. I have considered that it might be fake, might have been dipped too long, might be mint related, etc. It does not appear to be recently cleaned, at least not to me. I have read the attached excerpt from an article on NGC...</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #808080"><i>&quot;Almost everyone&#039;s short list of favorite coin types includes the Walking Liberty half dollar. The United States Mint didn&#039;t share that view, however, as coins of this type were very difficult to strike; even proofs sometimes lacked complete details.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"><i>The Mint&#039;s Engraving Department attempted to correct this problem by sharpening the obverse master hub on several occasions, but the fundamental problem of poor metal flow into the dies proved insurmountable. This fact presents a challenge when attempting to grade Walking Liberty halves, as many of the pieces coined during the 1920s and earlier seem worn even when fully lustrous. This also is true of some of the branch mint issues of the &#039;30s and &#039;40s, particularly those coined at the San Francisco Mint.&quot;</i></span></p><p><a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-grading-guide/Grading-Walking-Liberty-Half-Dollars.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-grading-guide/Grading-Walking-Liberty-Half-Dollars.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-grading-guide/Grading-Walking-Liberty-Half-Dollars.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Any help would be appreciated.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]319824[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]319823[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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