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1939-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar

San Francisco Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1939-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar was struck at the San Francisco Mint with a recorded mintage of 2,552,000 coins — the 25th-lowest of the 65 circulation-strike issues in the walking liberty half dollar series, and 19% of the 13,631,800 walking liberty half dollars the Mint produced across all facilities in 1939.

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 1939 walking liberty half dollar, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1939 Walking Liberty Half DollarPhiladelphia6,812,000
1939-S Walking Liberty Half DollarSan Francisco2,552,000
1939-D Walking Liberty Half DollarDenver4,267,800

The 1939-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.