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A trio of crusty early Walkers...
ElmerFusterpuck
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The pre-1934 Walkers are always a challenge to find in nice circulated (VF-XF) condition. Seems like the 1917 is the easiest, then it goes down from there. For the Walker fanatics, what have been your most challenging dates? Anyone have a complete run of nice problem-free 1916-33 Walkers. I figure Walkerfan21D would be high on the list! 
1916-D PCGS XF-40
1918-D PCGS VF-35
1929-D PCGS VF-35
1916-D PCGS XF-40
1918-D PCGS VF-35
1929-D PCGS VF-35
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The 16D and 18D even look to be slightly undergraded (which I'd always rather have, instead of over graded).
I've noticed this with other PCGS walkers as well; it seems they are loose down at the VF20 level, then get real tough at the XF40 level,
but I don't know why. I need to discuss this with Supertooth sometime....
There are a lot of 'conditional' tough coins in the early to mid part of the series. In VF/XF there are no real stoppers. AU is where the real challenge is. But you have situations like the 21S - relatively common in VF with a partial breast plate, but exceedingly tough in true XF. The 21D is tough at all grades levels above VG, so that is a challenge, and the 21P is right behind it. The 20D, 23S, and 28S are not hard in VF, get tougher in XF, and are practically non existant in AU. Then there are coins like the 16S and 17S obv....I find these coins to be tougher in Fine and VF than they are XF. The 19D is the only other coin I find to be challenging at the VF/XF level, but it's not a stopper. Coins that are relatively easy despite low mintages are the 17D Rev, and 29D and S.
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Terrific coins you have there!
Lot of nice Walkers in this thread.
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That would be a cool set and more affordable than unc or AU.
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
The two loose ones are just showing trying to fill the empty holes from back then.
Ron
Edited to add: Sorry posted an 23-S instead of the 17-S I needed to post.
And kaz your 1918 that you've posted before is my ideal of a beautiful circulated example, wonderful contrasting toning!
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Great circulated examples of one of my favorite coin designs.
Mike
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In all these years, I agree with "oreville" about how the Walkers age. I can get excited over a nice good--very good "early" Walker just as I can enjoy an MS coin from the later years. I guess that's why I have so many sets from various grading levels.
But today, DIMEMAN"S comment about a set of XF 40--45 coins sort of made me smile. Among ALL my raw sets, I guess that if I were to combine the coins, I could come up with a pretty good XF set. But, and it's a BIG BUT, there would still be a coin or two missing. The 21D coin comes to my mind. But, I wanted to note, that, if you want unmolested coins----if you want uncleaned----and, especially if you want undipped and original toned coins---A set of XF coins is even harder to acquire. Worse yet in original AU condition.
As to the scarcity of the "early" Walkers, I'll stick to my comments that I have made on both this forum and across the street. And, I'll agree with those top 15 coins that both Walker21D and myself have mentioned many times. However, recently, I note that these coins are getting ever more difficult to find. A lot of collectors seem to LOVE the Walker design----as well they should. Bob [supertooth]