Please post any "Walking Liberty" coin that you have. Here's my 2017 Silver dollar and 1946S Walking Liberty Half dollar. Thanks, and have a great day!
With the third-lowest mintage in the series, the 1938-D is one of the key dates for the Walking Liberty half dollar type. This is one of the few times I have owned a key date coin that was also in high grade. Liberty is also walking on the Saint-Gaudens $20. The French semeuse or "sower", which likely inspired Weinman's Walking Liberty design, is also a "walking Liberty" of sorts, I suppose, though the figure is Marianne, the personification of the French republic. This particular example was turned into a World War I trench art love token, which turned out to have a rather sad but interesting story.
Liberty was also a featured personification on Roman coins. Here is an As of Claudius (41-54 AD), with a Liberty (Libertas) reverse. This one was a prize in one of my past giveaways. I previously had one in my old Twelve Caesars collection. Her posture on these coins is more suggestive of a shrug than walking, but maybe she walked off later.
Or... Maybe she's shrugging because it's her reaction to her husbands request for dinner? LOL. And... I haven't been drinking tonight.
I am starting a raw short set of Walkers for a collection I'm building of World War II coins. I've only get three so far. I'm a little surprised that the dealers don't have more them, but I guess a far number of pieces have been slabbed. Here's one of my recent purchases. This is going to be a set in MS-62 to 64. No Gems and no super high prices! I paid too much for this Proof when the market was high, but it is an impressive original surface coin. The grade is PR-67
