Cameo Proof Walking Liberty Half pics? Please post!

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• Merc Posts: 1,647 ✭✭

  November 10, 2005 4:40AM

  I've written about this subject before. I've seen a few cameo graded Walkers and they just do not have full cameo frost over all the devices. The sun is brilliant and never frosted. No Walker has a proof cameo like the proof Barber halves. Some are close though. Here is one of mine.
  
  
  
  This coin and my other proof walkers were in an educational display at the FUN show in 2003 and 2004.

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• 100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭

  November 10, 2005 4:52AM

  Mightey tall order !
  
  Seems there are only 2 or 3 extant graded as such

  

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• Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2005 5:24AM

  and even those are semi-cameo at best, for the reasons Merc cites
  
  I tried to capture the semi- nature of this one using natural light..
  
  
  
  
  
  the mirrors of the fields are more reflective than this photo indicates, but at best one could only say, "mild cameo"

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• lsica Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2005 6:44AM

  
  
  << <i>I've written about this subject before. I've seen a few cameo graded Walkers and they just do not have full cameo frost over all the devices. The sun is brilliant and never frosted. No Walker has a proof cameo like the proof Barber halves. Some are close though. Here is one of mine. >>
  
  
  
  Beautiful coin, Merc.
  
  I think cameo proofs were just so much more beautiful in the days before the mint was making ALL proofs cameos. Even in modern series. Compare a cameo Washington or Kennedy from the 60's to what's in a 200x set.
  

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• lsica Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭✭

  December 11, 2005 1:21PM

  With apologies to Anaconda. I HAD to post this. Just too dang pretty not to:
  
  
  
  Also the link to the auction
  
  Wow

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• solid Posts: 2,975

  December 11, 2005 1:42PM

  This one is close...
  
  
  
  Ken

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• lsica Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭✭

  December 11, 2005 9:27PM

  A VERY nice piece. Wow.

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• pontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭

  December 11, 2005 10:37PM

  oh man those are purty

  
  
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