1944-S 50C Walking Liberty Half Dollar PCGS MS65

Here’s an attractive—and quite affordable—piece to add to your collection. Adolph A. Weinman’s Walking Liberty is considered among the most beautiful coin designs in America and around the world. The eagle design is considered by many to come in a close second to Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ eagle on the reverse of his Striding Liberty (“Saint”) double eagle (1907-1933). PCGS has graded 3,370 as MS65 with 1,034 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $325.00 in MS65.

Plaster rendering of Adolph A. Weinman’s second Walking Liberty half dollar design. Photo: Stack’s Bowers Galleries.

Renowned numismatic art critic and scholar Cornelius Vermeule writes of this beautiful coin, "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."