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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 25381108, member: 10461"]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.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/cffa6c4d93414c6fb540460538028eaa.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Liberty is also walking on the Saint-Gaudens $20.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/68fef3f61c5b496cbc9952bf96aa7bb3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The French <i>semeuse</i> 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 <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/berthas-boy-ww1-love-token-on-1916-french-franc-from-a-fallen-canadian-soldier-to-his-mother.286034/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/berthas-boy-ww1-love-token-on-1916-french-franc-from-a-fallen-canadian-soldier-to-his-mother.286034/">sad but interesting story</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FLT-1916-BerthaVShaver-003703-coin.png&hash=c8c104b0dd3248b23f35d5e36c8c1bb1" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 25381108, member: 10461"]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. [IMG]https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/cffa6c4d93414c6fb540460538028eaa.jpg[/IMG] Liberty is also walking on the Saint-Gaudens $20. [IMG]https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/68fef3f61c5b496cbc9952bf96aa7bb3.jpg[/IMG] The French [I]semeuse[/I] 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 [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/berthas-boy-ww1-love-token-on-1916-french-franc-from-a-fallen-canadian-soldier-to-his-mother.286034/']sad but interesting story[/URL]. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FLT-1916-BerthaVShaver-003703-coin.png&hash=c8c104b0dd3248b23f35d5e36c8c1bb1[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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