1919-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar. MS-64 (PCGS). CAC. This example of a key date in the Walking Liberty half dollar series offers attractive Choice Mint Sate quality. Brilliant silver surfaces are highly lustrous with a lively satin texture. The strike is above average for this challenging issue, overall detail sharp with emerging definition to Libertys head as well as the central high points on both sides. A bit more detail to those areas, in fact, and this smooth-looking example may have secured an even higher grade from PCGS.A key date Walking Liberty half dollar even in circulated grades, the 1919-S has a mintage of just 1,552,000 pieces. In Mint State it is the second rarest issue of the type after the 1921-S (per Jeff Ambio, emCollecting & Investing Strategies for Walking Liberty Half Dollars/em, 2008). This is one of the nicest examples at the assigned grade level that we have handled in recent sales and it represents outstanding value for the astute collector.
