Walking Liberty Half Dollar Dates & Mintmarks
All 65 issues of the series, 1916 through 1947, with the mintage the U.S. Mint reported for each. The count is 65 rather than 63 because the Mint moved the mintmark from the obverse to the reverse partway through 1917, and the 1917-D and 1917-S coins from before and after that change are catalogued as separate issues with separate mintages.
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65
Date/mint combinations
6
Key dates
under 750k struck
18
Semi-keys
under 2.5M struck
3
Mints
P, D, S
| Date | Mint | Mintage | Rank | Tier | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916-D | Denver | 1,014,400 | 11 | Semi-key | — |
| 1916-P | Philadelphia | 608,000 | 6 | Key date | see note |
| 1916-S | San Francisco | 508,000 | 4 | Key date | — |
| 1917-D Obverse Mintmark | Denver | 765,400 | 7 | Semi-key | 1 documented variety |
| 1917-D Reverse Mintmark | Denver | 1,940,000 | 18 | Semi-key | — |
| 1917-P | Philadelphia | 12,292,000 | 57 | Common date | — |
| 1917-S Obverse Mintmark | San Francisco | 952,000 | 8 | Semi-key | 1 documented variety |
| 1917-S Reverse Mintmark | San Francisco | 5,554,000 | 39 | Common date | — |
| 1918-D | Denver | 3,853,040 | 29 | Common date | — |
| 1918-P | Philadelphia | 6,634,000 | 41 | Common date | — |
| 1918-S | San Francisco | 10,282,000 | 52 | Common date | — |
| 1919-D | Denver | 1,165,000 | 12 | Semi-key | — |
| 1919-P | Philadelphia | 962,000 | 9 | Semi-key | — |
| 1919-S | San Francisco | 1,552,000 | 14 | Semi-key | — |
| 1920-D | Denver | 1,551,000 | 13 | Semi-key | — |
| 1920-P | Philadelphia | 6,372,000 | 40 | Common date | — |
| 1920-S | San Francisco | 4,624,000 | 38 | Common date | — |
| 1921-D | Denver | 208,000 | 1 | Key date | — |
| 1921-P | Philadelphia | 246,000 | 2 | Key date | — |
| 1921-S | San Francisco | 548,000 | 5 | Key date | — |
| 1923-S | San Francisco | 2,178,000 | 22 | Semi-key | — |
| 1927-S | San Francisco | 2,392,000 | 24 | Semi-key | — |
| 1928-S | San Francisco | 1,940,000 | 19 | Semi-key | — |
| 1929-D | Denver | 1,001,200 | 10 | Semi-key | — |
| 1929-S | San Francisco | 1,902,000 | 17 | Semi-key | — |
| 1933-S | San Francisco | 1,786,000 | 16 | Semi-key | — |
| 1934-D | Denver | 2,361,400 | 23 | Semi-key | — |
| 1934-P | Philadelphia | 6,964,000 | 43 | Common date | — |
| 1934-S | San Francisco | 3,652,000 | 27 | Common date | — |
| 1935-D | Denver | 3,003,800 | 26 | Common date | — |
| 1935-P | Philadelphia | 9,162,000 | 47 | Common date | — |
| 1935-S | San Francisco | 3,854,000 | 30 | Common date | — |
| 1936-D | Denver | 4,252,400 | 35 | Common date | — |
| 1936-P | Philadelphia | 12,614,000 | 58 | Common date | 3,901 proofs · see note |
| 1936-S | San Francisco | 3,884,000 | 31 | Common date | — |
| 1937-D | Denver | 1,676,000 | 15 | Semi-key | — |
| 1937-P | Philadelphia | 9,522,000 | 48 | Common date | 5,728 proofs |
| 1937-S | San Francisco | 2,090,000 | 20 | Semi-key | — |
| 1938-D | Denver | 491,600 | 3 | Key date | — |
| 1938-P | Philadelphia | 4,110,000 | 34 | Common date | 8,152 proofs |
| 1939-D | Denver | 4,267,800 | 36 | Common date | — |
| 1939-P | Philadelphia | 6,812,000 | 42 | Common date | 8,808 proofs |
| 1939-S | San Francisco | 2,552,000 | 25 | Common date | — |
| 1940-P | Philadelphia | 9,156,000 | 46 | Common date | 11,279 proofs |
| 1940-S | San Francisco | 4,550,000 | 37 | Common date | — |
| 1941-D | Denver | 11,248,400 | 54 | Common date | — |
| 1941-P | Philadelphia | 24,192,000 | 61 | Common date | 1 documented variety · 15,412 proofs |
| 1941-S | San Francisco | 8,098,000 | 44 | Common date | — |
| 1942-D | Denver | 10,973,800 | 53 | Common date | — |
| 1942-P | Philadelphia | 47,818,000 | 64 | Common date | 21,120 proofs |
| 1942-S | San Francisco | 12,708,000 | 59 | Common date | — |
| 1943-D | Denver | 11,346,000 | 55 | Common date | — |
| 1943-P | Philadelphia | 53,190,000 | 65 | Common date | — |
| 1943-S | San Francisco | 13,450,000 | 60 | Common date | — |
| 1944-D | Denver | 9,769,000 | 49 | Common date | — |
| 1944-P | Philadelphia | 28,206,000 | 62 | Common date | — |
| 1944-S | San Francisco | 8,904,000 | 45 | Common date | — |
| 1945-D | Denver | 9,966,800 | 50 | Common date | — |
| 1945-P | Philadelphia | 31,502,000 | 63 | Common date | — |
| 1945-S | San Francisco | 10,156,000 | 51 | Common date | — |
| 1946-D | Denver | 2,151,000 | 21 | Semi-key | — |
| 1946-P | Philadelphia | 12,118,000 | 56 | Common date | 1 documented variety |
| 1946-S | San Francisco | 3,724,000 | 28 | Common date | — |
| 1947-D | Denver | 3,900,600 | 32 | Common date | — |
| 1947-P | Philadelphia | 4,094,000 | 33 | Common date | — |
Rank 1 is the lowest business-strike mintage in the series. Tiers are assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 struck is a key date, under 2,500,000 a semi-key. The same thresholds apply to every series on this site, so tiers are comparable between them. That is a production measure, not a market judgement, and not a statement about how many survive.
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Common questions
How many Walking Liberty half dollar dates and mintmarks are there?
65, which is why a complete set is described as a 65-coin set rather than 63. The extra two come from 1917: the Mint moved the mintmark from the obverse to the reverse partway through the year, so 1917-D and 1917-S each exist as two separately reported issues. No half dollars at all were struck in 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1931 and 1932, and in 1923, 1927, 1928 and 1933 only San Francisco struck them.
Which Walking Liberty half dollar has the lowest mintage?
The 1921-D, at 208,000, followed by the 1921-P at 246,000 and the 1938-D at 491,600. The 1921 issues are low because the Mint had turned its silver capacity over to the enormous Morgan and Peace dollar coinages required by the Pittman Act; it struck no half dollars at all in 1922.
Is the 1938-D the key date?
It is often called one, and it has the lowest mintage outside 1921, but the label is misleading in practice. By 1938 collectors were watching low mintages and saved the coin deliberately, so it survives in mint state far better than 491,600 suggests. The 1919-D, with more than twice the mintage, is considerably harder to find fully struck in high grade, and the 1921 trio are scarcer in every grade.
Why are so many Walking Liberty half dollars flat in the middle?
Walking Liberty half dollars are chronically weakly struck, especially the branch-mint issues of 1917-1929. The first places to lose detail are Liberty's head and her left hand, and on many dates a fully struck example simply does not exist in quantity. Flatness there is usually a striking characteristic rather than circulation wear, and the grading services account for it. Judge wear instead on the highest points of the breast and knee, and compare any coin against images of the same date and mint rather than against a sharply struck coin from the 1940s.
What is the Walking Liberty "short set"?
The twenty coins from 1941 through 1947. Every date in that run is common and inexpensive, and the group is the usual entry point to the series because it can be completed without confronting the 1916-1921 keys or the scarce branch-mint issues of the 1920s.
Why does the Walking Liberty design look familiar?
Adolph A. Weinman's obverse was revived in 1986 for the American Silver Eagle bullion coin and remains in use, so the design is far more widely recognised than the half dollar series itself.
Does Coin Curator publish Walking Liberty half dollar values?
No. This catalog carries U.S. Mint production figures, historical context, and documented varieties. It does not publish prices, valuations, price guides, or population and census counts, because Coin Curator does not hold licensed data for any of those. Pages link to the grading services' own certification lookups and to marketplace searches so you can check current evidence yourself.
Where do these mintage figures come from?
They are U.S. Mint production records, cross-checked on 2026-07-31. Unlike the dollar series, Wikipedia carries no mintage table for this design, so two independent tabular sources were joined by a targeted check of the key dates against a third and by an arithmetic check: Wikipedia states 74,400 proofs were struck across the series, and the seven reported yearly proof figures sum to exactly that.
Mintage sources
Mintage figures are U.S. Mint production records, cross-checked against the published tables below on 2026-07-31. Where those tables disagree, the disagreement is disclosed on the affected page rather than resolved silently.
- CoinMintages.com, Walking Liberty half dollar mintages — Reports the 1917 obverse and reverse mintmark issues separately, and lists proofs by year.
- LandOfCoins, Walking Liberty half dollar mintage — Independent table carrying business strikes and proofs in separate columns. Agrees on all 65 issues.
- Wikipedia, "Walking Liberty half dollar" — No mintage table, but states a series proof total of 74,400, which matches the sum of the seven reported proof figures.
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