Walking Liberty Half Dollar
Walking Liberty Half Dollar was half dollar coinage system or 50 cent silver piece that was issued by the United States Mint in 1916 and this type of coin was present in coinage system from 1916 to 1947. Adolph A. Weinman was the designer of this type of coin. New Mint Director noticed that it is the requirement of the time that new coins should be introduced after every 25 years and the director of Mint was allowed to do so and it was also the need of that time. He decided to introduce new designs for many coins that were designed by Barber and the dimes and quarters had the same design. Woolley, the director of The United States Mint, ordered to conduct a competition for the new designs for coins and as the result of this competition, Weinman was selected to design this type of coin. He was assigned a task to design the half dollar and the dime.
The Mint might not have arranged it thusly, but rather Weinman wound up getting two of the three coins, the dime, and a half dollar, with MacNeil getting the quarter and Polasek being closed out. It’s difficult to envision how Polasek or any other person could have enhanced the triumphant sections, however, for each of the three of the new coins—the Mercury dime, Standing Liberty quarter and Walking Liberty a half dollar—are wonderful coinage fine arts.
A. Weinman was conceived in Germany, however, went to the United States at ten years old in 1880. He sharpened his aptitudes as an understudy of the extremely popular Augustus Saint-Gaudens and, by 1915; he was generally acclaimed as one of the country’s finest stone workers.
For the front of his outline, Weinman picked a full-length figure of Liberty striding toward the beginning of another day, clad in the Stars and Stripes and conveying branches of tree and oak symbolizing common and military radiance. The invert delineates a magnificent hawk roosted on a mountain bluff, wings unfurled in a posture proposing power, with a sampling of mountain pine—emblematic of America—springing from a crack in the stone. These firmly devoted topics reverberated flawlessly over a country at that point getting ready to enter World War I, unexpectedly against the place where there is Weinman’s introduction to the world. Weinman put his initials (AW) specifically under the bird’s tail quills.
More than 485 million Walking Liberty halves were made in the vicinity of 1916 and 1947, yet they were issued just sporadically amid the 1920s and mid-’30s, none being minted in 1922, 1924-26 and 1930-32. These were coins with considerable purchasing power, enough to purchase a chunk of bread, a quart of the drain and twelve eggs in the mid-’30s, so it didn’t take enormous amounts to fill Americans’ needs, particularly after the Wall Street crash dove the country into the Great Depression.