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Walking Liberty Silver Half Dollar, 1945, WWII!

Con/ about Extremely Fine; an exquisite darkly toned "old cabinet" example.

According to Secretary McAdoo in his 1916 annual report - 

"The design of the half dollar bears a full-length figure of Liberty, the folds of the Stars and Stripes flying to the breeze as a background, progressing in full stride toward the dawn of a new day, carrying branches of laurel and oak, symbolical of civil and military glory. The hand of the figure is outstretched in bestowal of the spirit of liberty. The reverse of the half dollar shows an eagle perched high upon a mountain crag, his wings unfolded, fearless in spirit and conscious of his power. Springing from a rift in the rock is a sapling of mountain pine, symbolical of America."

Seller's Note/ Struck in 1945, the final year of World War Two, the US Mint ceased its production of Walking Liberty Silver Half Dollars in 1947.