1944-D PCGS MS-65 Walker Half "Super Gem in an OGH

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1944-D Walking Liberty Half Dollar Graded By One Of The Best of The Top Two Graders PCGS MS-65 "Old Green Holder" GemThis is an antique. A really nice example from the early days at PCGS. At a time when most believe, that the majority of the graders there were super strict. This year from Denver I've been told is notorious for having been softly struck. And this coin is somewhat softly struck. But having said that, it does have left hand thumb separation and strong mark free skirt lines on all five sets, including the center set. Miss Liberty's head is a bit soft, but still looks very good. The reverse feather detail is quite distinct, even with the somewhat soft strike. Even on the eagles left leg in the front. I'm not going to say this coin is vastly under-graded or should be sitting in an MS-66+ slab, but what I am going to say is, the 1944 Denver mint had issues with their strikes. I own a MS-66 in this same year/mint coin. It too is in a PCGS slab. Not an OGH, but slabbed by maybe the most strict when it comes to a numerical grade on a coin, and it look absolutely no nicer than this MS-65. In fact I thought about keeping this 65 just because it looked as good as my MS-66 and it was in an old green holder by PCGS, but I have made the decision to sell off just about 100% of my duplicates in the Walker series to finish my short set here in all MS-66 well struck coins. So all I'm really doing, is swapping coins for coins. That is the only way I can retain my sanity because I hate to sell any coin I have bought period. Especially a gem like this one, and in an old green holder to boot. But I am, & here it is. One final note, and I always want to share every detail I can about every coin I sell, there is on the reverse a faint, what looks to be a thumb-print, that "CAN NOT" be seen unless you are looking at the coin under a pair of 10X opti-visors. To me, this takes absolutely nothing away from the eye appeal of this very nice ogh Walker half. This is just plain & simple, a very nice looking coin & slabbed MS-65 by maybe the best graders on the planet. My listing descriptions have been much too long in the past, so with this popular half dollar series I'm just going to say that I have never bought an ugly coin since I started buying slabbed examples. And while I have occasionally found a very nice coin graded by someone other than the "top two", it was only because I planned on cracking the coin out and re-submitting it. This tactic has proven itself quite profitable down through the years and my best up-grade was a $2.50 Liberty gold piece that was in a PCI AU-55 holder which I knew right away was the mother of all under grades. PCGS thought so too and the coin came back MS-62. But having said that, I know three coin series very well and they are pre-1908 Liberty gold, followed by the Franklin half dollar and lastly this series, the Walking Liberty half, I know just pretty well. You that know this series very well, know that strike can be all over the board and no MS-64 or MS-65 look alike between even two coins from the same grading company. But I choose to stick with PCGS & NGC in that order for the Walkers, and on the Franklin half, the most strict grade wise is PCGS and the most strict at calling a Franklin half, a Full Bell Line Franklin, the top slot goes to NGC. But both are very worthy and very strict and I sure would hate to live on the difference.All of my coins come with a 7-day from the date of purchase return privilege in which the only amount deducted from your purchase price was my postage to send the coin your way. And of course you will have to pay the postage back to me. But each and every coin I sell is a coin that I thought enough of to put into my collection at one point. I don't buy ugly coins and I sure won't sell an ugly coin. Please email any one of my customers and ask how they were treated in their dealings with me. I assure you that you will not be disappointed. Honesty & integrity is not my middle name. It's my 1st name. Please feel free to offer up a trad... read more

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