Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 4

The Dr. Jon Kardatzke Coin and Currency Collection, Part 1

Liberty Walking Half Dollars

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1212		1916 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-63. Satiny luster peculiar to 1916-17 issues. Untoned and appealing. View details	Realized $288
Lot 1213		1916-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-53. Lustrous with light toning about the borders. View details	Realized $161
Lot 1214		1916-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. EF-45. Choice for the grade. View details	Realized $161
Lot 1215		1916-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-50. Some tone starting to form. View details	Realized $518
Lot 1216		1916-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. EF-40. Silvery-gray in color with some luster at the periphery. View details	Realized $437
Lot 1217		1917 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. Frosty with light golden toning. View details	Realized $121
Lot 1218		1917 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-62. Frosty and bright, without any toning. Boldly struck. View details	Realized $161
Lot 1219		1917-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. Mint mark on obverse. NGC graded MS-65. Nicely defined hand and overall the strike is exceptional on this Gem Walker. The surfaces show nary a mark anywhere and just shimmer with luster and pretty much demonstrate the colors of the rainbow. A pinkish gold in the centers deepens to a delightful bright blue iridescence in the fields. Truly, a wonderful memento of its times. View details	Unsold
Lot 1220		1917-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. Mint mark on obverse. MS-60. Untoned and choice, with frosty luster and clean surfaces. View details	Realized $391
Lot 1221		1917-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. Mint mark on obverse. Sharpness of Extremely Fine with initials in the right obverse field. View details	Realized $52
Lot 1222		1917-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. Mint mark on reverse. AU-50. Most of the luster remains intact, untoned and lightly circulated. View details	Realized $391
Lot 1223		1917-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. Mint mark on reverse. EF-45. Light hairlines from an old cleaning. View details	Realized $161
Lot 1224		1917-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. Mint mark on obverse. AU-58. Just a hint of rubbing on the high points, untoned and still lustrous. A scarce date that is always in demand. View details	Realized $978
Lot 1225		1917-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. Mint mark on reverse. PCGS graded MS-64. The cataloguer likes this coin quite a lot because it has a real original feel to it. Black flecks all around the edges, with some golden hues, indicate that it probably lay for many years in a drawer or box, outside of collectors' hands. Its surfaces have a silvery look, rather than being too bright. Liberty's leg and the eagle are a bit soft in strike, but that is part and parcel with this S-mint date. The mintmark is really sharp. Manufactured just as America was entering its first international war of any size; the times, they would get tougher! This is a great memento of the era. View details	Realized $1,553
Lot 1226		1917-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. Mint mark on reverse. MS-60. With a whisper of sunset color at the centers, lustrous and worth a close look. View details	Realized $184
Lot 1227		1917-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. Mint mark on reverse. AU-58. View details	Realized $265
Lot 1228		1918 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. PCGS graded MS-63. Premium quality. An absurdly low grade for the quality offered here. Sent in once, with the resulting insult. You be the judge. Lovely golden toning around the periphery, nicely struck and with only a couple of microscopic tick marks. View details	Realized $673
Lot 1229		1918 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. EF-45. Cleaned. View details	Realized $132
Lot 1230		1918-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-63. Choice surfaces for the grade which show few marks, even under the scrutiny of a glass. Satiny luster and well struck on Liberty, although her thumb is a bit weak. Scarce in this grade. View details	Realized $920
Lot 1231		1918-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-60. Light golden toning starting to form on the obverse. Typical San Francisco strike. View details	Realized $265
Lot 1232		1919 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-55. Minor hairlines in the fields, nicely struck and lustrous. View details	Realized $661
Lot 1233		1919 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-50. Some light hairlines, probably from an old cleaning and now starting to tone quite nicely. View details	Realized $408
Lot 1234		1919-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. PCGS graded AU-58. Frosty and untoned without blemishes from circulation. The strike is weak on Liberty's head and some of the other high devices, typical of the date and mint. Far better than one would expect for the grade. View details	Realized $3,220
Lot 1235		1919-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-50. Light hairlines from circulation and with some luster in the fields. Untoned and a scarce date in high grade. View details	Realized $1,150
Lot 1236		1920 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. NGC graded MS-66 Starr. If you peer at this, you will find a number of tiny ticks up and down Liberty's leg and on the sun, but it's still one of the most wonderful Walkers you will ever behold. The reverse is sheer perfection, shimmery and gleaming and nearly flawless. Cartwheel luster abounds beneath the wonderful color: speckly "aluminum foil" silver perfectly sheathing the surfaces, indicating of course a totally original, never dipped or played-with specimen. A key date in this grade, often overlooked in favor of the elusive 1921s. A great coin! 1920 was an interesting year. In the wake of World War I, the Nation began a Red Scare that would ultimately erupt in the 1950s under Sen. Joe McCarthy. The infamous Sacco & Vanzetti murder trial was a year away but in 1920 a killing supposedly involving these immigrants shocked the citizenry, in an early revulsion to the "Reds," meaning in 1920 any foreigner. Sacco and Vanzetti were summarily sentenced to death, despite faulty proof. The scariest event of the year, though, was passage of the 18th Amendment, Prohibition, for it would usher in an era of violence and resistance to the law unknown since the outlaw days of the Wild West. These would be the Roaring Twenties and the age of the Tommy Gun and the Great Gatsby, and many young and idealistic Americans would emigrate to Europe and go down in history as the Lost Generation. Hold this coin in your hands and you capture all of this nostalgia at once and in the finest state of preservation likely to have survived the tumults of these last 80 years. View details	Unsold
Lot 1237		1920 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. PCGS graded MS-64. We had to study this coin under 14x magnification because at first we thought it was overgraded, but our first impression was wrong and we decided that PCGS got it just right. What's the trouble is a myriad of die-finish lines all over it, which resemble abrasions and even friction. But it's all in the dies, except for some small marks which put this into the MS64 category. The thumb shows but the rest of the hand is mushy. The highest folds of Liberty's gown are unstruck. The color is a pleasing (to these old eyes anyhow) lilac gray with hues of pale gold and a nice silvery background. Good date, as we've stated elsewhere. View details	Realized $834
Lot 1238		1920 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-63. Light hairlines in the fields and starting to retone. View details	Realized $345
Lot 1239		1920 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-60. Bright and frosty with a small tar spot in the right obverse field that might be removable. View details	Realized $230
Lot 1240		1920-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-50. Just a hint of wear, lustrous, untoned surfaces and decently struck. Scarce and desirable. View details	Realized $575
Lot 1241		1920-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-60. Lightly toned. View details	Realized $575
Lot 1242		1920-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-50. Silvery-gray toning and well struck. Minor circulation lines. View details	Realized $288
Lot 1243		1921 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. PCGS graded AU-58. Frosty and untoned, with nearly full luster throughout. This is one of the key dates to the Walking Liberty half series, with a token mintage of 246,000, few of which were saved in high grade. The United States economy went through a short, sharp depression, like a hangover from the First World War. Hence demand for coins fell and mintages plummeted. View details	Realized $2,530
Lot 1244		1921-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-63. The lowest mintage issue of the series, and priced accordingly. This particular example has blazing luster, but a few trivial hairlines in the fields. Few handling marks are visible, even with a glass, making this coin worthy of a high grade mint state collection. Choice indeed. View details	Realized $2,415
Lot 1245		Choice Mint State 1921-S Walker. PCGS graded MS-63. The first question that popped into the cataloguer's head was, Why isn't this beautiful coin in a 64 holder? The hand is a bit weak but it's still visible. There are hardly any marks. The fields are gleaming bright and silvery. Remnants of black in the devices indicate that the coin lay around forever, probably lost to collectors, then was dipped. Some fritzies down Liberty's leg? Whatever you decide, if you buy this coin you will be very happy with it, for it is a Choice example of this key date. Bid liberally is our recommendation, if you want to acquire it. View details	Unsold
Lot 1246		1921-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-58. Frosty luster throughout, with a whisper of wear and just a breath of toning around the periphery. Although this date has a higher mintage than either the 1921 or 1921-D, it is priced much higher in grades above Extremely Fine, a reflection of how few were saved in top condition. This slider would fit nicely in a mint state date collection, which is where it has been for the last several years. For the money, this coin has a lot of value for the grade. View details	Realized $6,900
Lot 1247		1923-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-58. Satiny luster and mostly untoned. A touch of rubbing on the highest devices from a slab and a lot more money. An excellent value in today's collector driven market. View details	Realized $863
Lot 1248		1927-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-63. Frosty luster throughout, but with vertical hairlines from a cleaning or other slight mishandling. The central obverse devices are a bit weak, as nearly always seen on San Francisco coins of this era. This is always a coiner's nightmare, if the coining pressure is turned up high for striking coins, the dies quickly crack and break and need to be replaced after coining just a small number of pieces. If the coining pressure is turned down a bit, perhaps the central devices won't be as sharp, but the dies will last far longer. Apparently it was the policy of San Francisco to strike coins with a bit less pressure than either Philadelphia or Denver during most of the 1920s, as well struck coins from that mint are the exception, while slightly weak centered coins are the rule. View details	Realized $1,093
Lot 1249		1927-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-50. Some minor friction, cleaned but not harshly. View details	Realized $196
Lot 1250		1928-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. PCGS graded MS-63. Have a look a few lots earlier at the 1921-S PCGS MS63, and you will find a coin which looks like it came from the same source as this piece. They share surface qualities. This 1928-S is grayer and has even more indications of light black flecking, probably from having lain in a drawer for ages, forgotten, unknown to collectors. The cataloguer likes it just as it is, but it would probably brighten from another dipping. Like the 21-S, this coin is real choice and will probably require a strong bid to be won. View details	Realized $1,380
Lot 1251		1928-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-62. Frosty and untoned, with just a hint of weakness at the centers. One of the scarce dates in mint state, this frosty coin should find a happy new home. View details	Realized $748
Lot 1252		1928-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-53. Light hairlines from an old cleaning, now starting to retone. View details	Realized $414
Lot 1253		1929-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-60. Nice surfaces and glowing luster throughout. View details	Realized $184
Lot 1254		1929-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. EF-45. View details	Realized $52
Lot 1255		1929-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-62. Mint-fresh throughout, with a hint of toning starting to form on the high points of the devices. Scarce. View details	Realized $322
Lot 1256		1929-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-60. Light iridescent toning. View details	Unsold
Lot 1257		1933-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-61. Mostly untoned save for a touch of original haze. Minor hairlines in the fields. View details	Realized $575
Lot 1258		1933-S Liberty Walking Half Dollar. AU-53. View details	Realized $173
Lot 1259		1934 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-65. A well struck satiny mint gem. View details	Unsold
Lot 1260		1934 Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-63. Fresh from a mint roll, with full luster and choice surfaces. View details	Realized $52
Lot 1261		1934-D Liberty Walking Half Dollar. MS-63. Tawny fingerprint toning on the obverse, but blazing luster beneath. Scarce and always in demand. View details	Realized $121

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