Set report · United States · Half Dollars
Walking Liberty Half Dollar: Who Owns What
How often each Walking Liberty Half Dollar coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 2,300 collectors of this set have one. Coins are graded from Common to Extremely scarce against the set's most-owned coin — a measure of collecting frequency, not of how many survive.
Hardest to find in real collections
The five least-owned coins of the set — ownership counts are collector-reported.
…and the ones everybody has
Full set: ownership & rarity, coin by coin
Values by grade for each of these live on the Walking Liberty Half Dollar catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 608,000 | 299 | 13% | Scarce |
| 1916-D | 1,014,400 | 256 | 11.1% | Very scarce |
| 1916-S | 508,000 | 203 | 8.8% | Very scarce |
| 1917 | 12,292,000 | 542 | 23.6% | Uncommon |
| 1917-D Obverse Mintmark | — | 299 | 13% | Scarce |
| 1917-D Reverse Mintmark | — | 296 | 12.9% | Scarce |
| 1917-S Obverse Mintmark | — | 252 | 11% | Very scarce |
| 1917-S Reverse Mintmark | — | 348 | 15.1% | Scarce |
| 1918 | 6,634,000 | 411 | 17.9% | Scarce |
| 1918-D | 3,853,040 | 311 | 13.5% | Scarce |
| 1918-S | 10,282,000 | 416 | 18.1% | Scarce |
| 1919 | 962,000 | 252 | 11% | Very scarce |
| 1919-D | 1,165,000 | 217 | 9.4% | Very scarce |
| 1919-S | 1,552,000 | 243 | 10.6% | Very scarce |
| 1920 | 6,372,000 | 392 | 17% | Scarce |
| 1920-D | 1,551,000 | 267 | 11.6% | Very scarce |
| 1920-S | 4,624,000 | 331 | 14.4% | Scarce |
| 1921 | 246,000 | 193 | 8.4% | Very scarce |
| 1921-D | 208,000 | 163 | 7.1% | Very scarce |
| 1921-S | 548,000 | 221 | 9.6% | Very scarce |
| 1923-S | 2,178,000 | 316 | 13.7% | Scarce |
| 1927-S | 2,392,000 | 351 | 15.3% | Scarce |
| 1928-S | 1,940,000 | 342 | 14.9% | Scarce |
| 1929-D | 1,001,200 | 285 | 12.4% | Scarce |
| 1929-S | 1,902,000 | 324 | 14.1% | Scarce |
| 1933-S | 1,786,000 | 334 | 14.5% | Scarce |
| 1934 | 6,964,000 | 477 | 20.7% | Scarce |
| 1934-D | 2,361,000 | 310 | 13.5% | Scarce |
| 1934-S | 3,652,000 | 382 | 16.6% | Scarce |
| 1935 | 9,162,000 | 546 | 23.7% | Uncommon |
| 1935-D | 3,003,800 | 340 | 14.8% | Scarce |
| 1935-S | 3,854,000 | 372 | 16.2% | Scarce |
| 1936 | 12,614,000 | 619 | 26.9% | Uncommon |
| 1936 (Proof) | 3,901 | 17 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1936-D | 4,252,400 | 393 | 17.1% | Scarce |
| 1936-S | 3,884,000 | 371 | 16.1% | Scarce |
| 1937 | 9,522,000 | 562 | 24.4% | Uncommon |
| 1937 (Proof) | 5,728 | 13 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1937-D | 1,676,000 | 304 | 13.2% | Scarce |
| 1937-S | 2,090,000 | 313 | 13.6% | Scarce |
| 1938 | 4,110,000 | 428 | 18.6% | Scarce |
| 1938 (Proof) | 8,152 | 15 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1938-D | 491,600 | 280 | 12.2% | Scarce |
| 1939 | 6,812,000 | 514 | 22.3% | Scarce |
| 1939 (Proof) | 8,808 | 13 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1939-D | 4,267,800 | 424 | 18.4% | Scarce |
| 1939-S | 2,552,000 | 352 | 15.3% | Scarce |
| 1940 | 9,156,000 | 561 | 24.4% | Uncommon |
| 1940 (Proof) | 11,279 | 10 | 0.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1940-S | 4,550,000 | 388 | 16.9% | Scarce |
| 1941 | 24,192,000 | 783 | 34% | Uncommon |
| 1941 (Proof) | 15,412 | 15 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1941-D | 11,248,400 | 563 | 24.5% | Uncommon |
| 1941-S | 8,098,000 | 481 | 20.9% | Scarce |
| 1942 | 47,818,000 | 1,019 | 44.3% | Common |
| 1942 (Proof) | 21,120 | 20 | 0.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1942-D | 10,973,800 | 554 | 24.1% | Uncommon |
| 1942-S | 12,708,000 | 556 | 24.2% | Uncommon |
| 1943 | 53,190,000 | 1,069 | 46.5% | Common |
| 1943-D | 11,346,000 | 549 | 23.9% | Uncommon |
| 1943-S | 13,450,000 | 573 | 24.9% | Uncommon |
| 1944 | 28,206,000 | 839 | 36.5% | Common |
| 1944-D | 9,769,000 | 513 | 22.3% | Scarce |
| 1944-S | 8,904,000 | 482 | 21% | Scarce |
| 1945 | 31,502,000 | 902 | 39.2% | Common |
| 1945-D | 9,966,800 | 517 | 22.5% | Scarce |
| 1945-S | 10,156,000 | 517 | 22.5% | Scarce |
| 1946 | 12,118,000 | 638 | 27.7% | Uncommon |
| 1946 Doubled Die Reverse (Error) | — | 14 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1946-D | 2,151,000 | 359 | 15.6% | Scarce |
| 1946-S | 3,724,000 | 412 | 17.9% | Scarce |
| 1947 | 4,094,000 | 484 | 21% | Scarce |
| 1947-D | 3,900,600 | 431 | 18.7% | Scarce |
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Based on the share of this set's collectors who own each coin — how often it turns up in a collection, not how many survive. Not the Sheldon rarity scale.
About these numbers
Ownership counts come from the same live per-coin counters shown across the LuckyCoin catalog; set-level collector counts come from the annual full-collection scan behind The State of Coin Collecting 2026. Counts are collector-reported and aggregate-only. Scarcity tiers come from 100 × (1 − owners ÷ owners of the set's most-owned coin): Common under 25, Uncommon 25–49, Scarce 50–74, Very scarce 75–89, Extremely scarce 90+. This reflects how often a coin is collected, not its surviving population — it is not the Sheldon rarity scale. CC BY 4.0 with attribution.