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1947 Walking Liberty Half Dollar

Philadelphia Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1947 Walking Liberty Half Dollar was struck at the Philadelphia Mint with a recorded mintage of 4,094,000 coins — the 33rd-lowest of the 65 circulation-strike issues in the walking liberty half dollar series, and 51% of the 7,994,600 walking liberty half dollars the Mint produced across all facilities in 1947.

The final year, two mints, and the design retired into legend - it returned in 1986 on the American Silver Eagle.

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 1947 walking liberty half dollar, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1947 Walking Liberty Half DollarPhiladelphia4,094,000
1947-D Walking Liberty Half DollarDenver3,900,600

The 1947 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.