1939-D 50C Walking Liberty Half Dollar PCGS MS67 (CAC) - A Conditional Rarity!

      It is with pleasure that we at AUCM present for your contemplation the purchase of a Conditional Rarity, the 1939-D Walking Liberty half dollar PCGS MS67 (CAC). David Hall writes, "The 1939-D is by far the most available Denver Mint Walker of the 1930s. The 1939-D is about the same rarity as the 1939 in uncirculated condition but, is ... rarer than the 1939 in superb gem MS66 or better condition. There are many highly lustrous white gems of this issue. Strike is usually fairly sharp...This coin comes nice!" Plus, it is affordable for its elevated grade!

      Renowned numismatic art critic and scholar Cornelius Vermeule writes of this beautiful coin, "The Liberty Walking half dollar ... really treat[s] the obverse and reverse as a surface sculptural ensemble. The Liberty Walking design particularly gives the true feeling for breadth and sculptural surfaces on the scale of a coin. These surfaces are formal, like a well-carved marble or precisely cast bronze relief for a war memorial .... the rising sun amid landscape anchors the motion of Liberty, her olive branch, and her starry cloak. On the reverse, the eagle standing on rocks with a gnarled tree at the left dominates but does not overwhelm the design. The working of the feathers is a miraculous coup de force ....

      "The debt to Roty's Sower is obvious, but the Liberty Walking design is an original creation, not a slavish copy. This half dollar, one of the greatest coins of the United States--if not the world--is as modern as official sculpture can ever be. It has the combination of naturalism, classicism, and dignified inner balance, a generally suave figure style in the midst of traditional poses, costumes, and attributes, ... paralleling the highest level of commemorative art engendered by the First World War."