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1919-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar

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Why this coin matters

The 1919-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar was struck at the San Francisco Mint with a recorded mintage of 1,552,000 coins — the 14th-lowest of the 65 circulation-strike issues in the walking liberty half dollar series, and 42% of the 3,679,000 walking liberty half dollars the Mint produced across all facilities in 1919.

A full collector's note for this issue — survival, strike character, and what to check before buying — is on the writing schedule; the figures above are the permanent record.

Mintage: the 1919 walking liberty half dollar, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1919 Walking Liberty Half DollarPhiladelphia962,000
1919-S Walking Liberty Half DollarSan Francisco1,552,000
1919-D Walking Liberty Half DollarDenver1,165,000

The 1919-S in its series

Sources

Mintage figures: United States Mint (Annual Report of the Director of the Mint), Royal Canadian Mint records, and — for the 1935 banknote issue — Bank of Canada printage records as published in the Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Government Paper Money, cross-checked across independent published references. Specifications: United States Mint coin specifications.

The mintage is the only number that never changes. This is where it lives.