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1921 Walking Liberty Half Dollar

Key datePhiladelphia Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1921 Walking Liberty Half Dollar was struck at the Philadelphia Mint with a recorded mintage of 246,000 coins — the 2nd-lowest of the 65 circulation-strike issues in the walking liberty half dollar series, and 25% of the 1,002,000 walking liberty half dollars the Mint produced across all facilities in 1921.

A quarter of a million halves in the year the Treasury sat on bags of unwanted 1920s - the postwar surplus wrote the mintage.

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 1921 walking liberty half dollar, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1921 Walking Liberty Half DollarPhiladelphia246,000
1921-S Walking Liberty Half DollarSan Francisco548,000
1921-D Walking Liberty Half DollarDenver208,000

The 1921 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.