Walking Liberties

BobbyD

Hello everyone,
Just wondering if there are any Walking Liberty fans out there. Change ideas, chat Etc.
Thanks, BobbyD

FC57Coins

Hey Bobby - although we might have different interests with respect to halves (mine is Franklins) there's always room to discuss walkers!

Frank

StillLurking

BobbyD, I don't collect WL's but have a few in a coin tube along with silver JFK's. The Walkers I got when
I had my paper route and a week's worth of news cost 67 cents. People paid with silver coins and Wheat Cents. I had almost 100 customers and access to pounds of coins every week.

ursabear

BobbyD,

I think they're in the top five of great 1900s coins for me! I've only begun to look at halfs in the collection part of my hobby. I'm lucky to have one gem MS so far, nothing spectacular, but truly cool to hold.

DIMEMAN

BobbyD,

Although I am the DimeMan and collect all of the Dime series, I also love Walkers and SLQ's

I have about 10 or so Walkers in 64, but have not registered the set yet. Looks like you are going in a higher grade.

I like the grade 64 because they are coins that look like 65's or they wouldn't be in slabs (late dates). And 64 is just a real nice grade, I think.

Jon

JJacks

Bobby, I hope to slowing complete my Walker short set 41-47, but I am focusing on Peace $s for now. I am trying to get Walkers in 64/65, with maybe a 6 or 2 thrown in.

JJacks

Russ

Dimeman,

So far, I have 11 in MS64 (IPOTAD3 - Walker Short Set). Your thinking is precisely as mine is. My set will be all MS64.

The Walking Liberty half is one of the very few business strikes that I like. It is a flat-out beautiful coin.

Russ, NCNE

crito

I've got two complete sets of circulated Walkers in Whitman albums (both the new album and the older two piece.) Main thing to remember is early dates are graded differently (skirt lines) than later dates (see ANA standards.)

Blade

LOVE the Walkers. I collect type and have 5 of these. My best are NGC MS64 and MS65. What coinage we had in 1917 - SLQs, Walkers, Merc Dimes, $10 Indians, $20 Saints! I wish great grandpa had yanked some of them out of circulation for me.

jom

<< <i>SLQs, Walkers, Merc Dimes, $10 Indians, $20 Saints >>



Don't forget the Buffalo and the smaller gold coins!

That period in our coinage design blows away, IMO, any other era in our history. Comparing that era to our coinage today is laughable.

jom

SarasotaFrank

my poor neglected Walkers have taken a back set to Kennedys, Franklins and Ikes. I managed to complete the short set and have about three quarters of the 16-41 album, but only a handful of the older coins are of decent quality. This is going to be a labor of love, but I have put them on the back burner until I get my Franklins fully upgraded.