Nice Big Coins
50c WALKING LIBERTY (1916-47)

Owner Comments:

This coin is one of the highlights of my collection. I bought it in 2004. It is graded NGC PR66CAMEO.

This part was written circa 2008. There were roughly 75,000 proof Walkers minted, of those roughly 36,000 have been graded (and regraded) between NGC and PCGS. Until a couple months ago, for several years there had only been 10 Walker cameos graded in total between both NGC/PCGS. Within the last several months NGC has gone from having one 1942 CAMEO to three (2 pr66 and 1 pr67), so I suspect someone has been playing the crackout game. Even assuming both of the newly graded 1942 coins are actually "brand new" coins that still leaves only 12 cameo Walkers in total between NGC/PCGS.

The mirrors on this coin are great. I literally can hold the coin at arms length and still see my face in the mirrors. The devices are a nice heavy cameo. The haze you may see in one image, and what may look like frost fade on some of the devices, do not exist. They are artifacts of image lighting. Bob Campbell took the images, and, IMO, did an excellent job.