1941-P Walking Liberty Half Dollar

Common date

The start of the seven-year run from 1941 to 1947 that collectors call the "short set", a twenty-coin group that is the usual entry point to the series because every date in it is common and affordable.

Mintage

Business strikes: 24,192,000
Mint: Philadelphia (no mintmark)
Mintage rank: 61 of 65
Proofs struck: 15,412

Rank 1 is the lowest business-strike mintage in the series. Mintage is what the Mint produced, not what survives. These circulated as money through two world wars and the Depression, and large quantities were later melted for their silver, none of it recorded by date.

Reading the figure

Among the 20 Philadelphia issues in the series it is the 16th smallest. Of the 43,538,400 struck across all mints in 1941, this issue accounts for 56%. That is 3 times the San Francisco figure for the same year. The 1941 split ran Philadelphia 24,192,000, Denver 11,248,400 and San Francisco 8,098,000. The series median is 4,094,000, so this issue is more than twice as numerous as a typical date. Series-wide output rose sharply that year: 43,538,400 against 13,706,000 in 1940.

Every sentence above is computed from the mintage table on this page, not asserted separately.

Scarcity tier

Common date

Assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 is a key date, under 2,500,000 is a semi-key.

This is a reproducible label derived from the mintage column, not a market valuation and not a Coin Curator price opinion. The same thresholds apply to every series on this site. Several dates are far harder or far easier to obtain than their mintage implies; where that is true, it is stated above.

Documented varieties

Proof without designer's monogram

Much of the 1941 proof production lacks Weinman's AW monogram below the eagle, lost through overpolishing of the dies. Known for other years too, but most common here.

Widely recognised varieties only. The VAM reference catalogs thousands of die marriages across these series; the absence of a variety here does not mean none is documented elsewhere.

Weak strike is not wear. Walking Liberty half dollars are chronically weakly struck, especially the branch-mint issues of 1917-1929. Read the full note on the series page.

What to check before buying

Nothing about this date calls for a check beyond the ones that apply to any certified coin.

And for any certified coin

Verify the certification number on the grading service’s own lookup rather than from a photograph of the label, match the listing images to the certification record including grade and any variety attribution, look for cleaning, compare the mintmark against published photographs of the genuine issue, and read the return policy before buying. The grading guide covers each of these in full.

Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and publishes no price or population data. These are verification steps, not a valuation.

Verify a certification number

Look a 1941-Pcertification number up on the service’s own site. A photograph of a label proves nothing.

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Common questions

How many 1941-P Walking Liberty half dollars were minted?

The Philadelphia Mint struck 24,192,000 1941-P Walking Liberty half dollars for circulation. That is the 61st lowest business-strike mintage of the 65 date and mintmark combinations in the series.

Is the 1941-P Walking Liberty half dollar a key date?

Coin Curator labels it a common date, assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 struck is a key date and under 2,500,000 is a semi-key. The same thresholds are used for every series on this site, so the tiers are comparable between them. That label describes production, not market value or how hard the coin is to find today. The start of the seven-year run from 1941 to 1947 that collectors call the "short set", a twenty-coin group that is the usual entry point to the series because every date in it is common and affordable.

What varieties exist for the 1941-P Walking Liberty half dollar?

Widely recognised varieties for this issue include Proof without designer's monogram. Much of the 1941 proof production lacks Weinman's AW monogram below the eagle, lost through overpolishing of the dies. Known for other years too, but most common here. Variety attributions should appear on the certification label rather than only in a seller's description.

What should I check before buying a 1941-P Walking Liberty half dollar?

Verify the certification number on the grading service's own lookup page, match the listing photographs to the certification record, check for cleaning, and compare the mintmark shape and position against published photographs of the genuine issue.

Guides for this coin

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Practical Guide

Walking Liberty Set Building

A multi-decade Adolph A. Weinman series with meaningful date, mint, strike, and condition challenges. Build a coin-by-coin research plan.

1 min read Market Context

Junk Silver vs Graded Silver: Which Is the Better Hold?

Pre-1965 US silver coins (junk silver) trade on melt value plus a small premium. Graded examples of the same coins trade on numismatics. Which strategy actually wins long-term?

1 min read Education

Error Coins: Types, Attribution, and Verification

Learn the difference between off-center strikes, doubled dies, mules, broadstrikes, and post-mint damage, plus the records to check before buying.

1 min read Buying Guide

MS-63 vs MS-65 vs MS-67: Which Grade to Actually Buy

Adjacent grades can carry very different market evidence. Learn how to compare surfaces, eye appeal, population data, and current records before choosing a grade.

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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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