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1942-D Walking Liberty Half Dollar

Denver Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1942-D Walking Liberty Half Dollar was struck at the Denver Mint with a recorded mintage of 10,973,800 coins — the 53rd-lowest of the 65 circulation-strike issues in the walking liberty half dollar series, and 15% of the 71,499,800 walking liberty half dollars the Mint produced across all facilities in 1942.

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 1942 walking liberty half dollar, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1942 Walking Liberty Half DollarPhiladelphia47,818,000
1942-S Walking Liberty Half DollarSan Francisco12,708,000
1942-D Walking Liberty Half DollarDenver10,973,800

The 1942-D 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.