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1916 Walking Liberty half dollar value guide -- first-year mintage, obverse mint mark placement, and grade-by-grade prices.
Condition drives the price — full breakdown below.
608,000 struck — against the other key dates in the Walking Liberty Half Dollar series.
Bars are scaled to keep the smallest mintages visible; the exact figure is printed on every row. Mintage is coins struck, not coins surviving — melting and circulation wear thin those numbers further.
First year of issue for Adolph A. Weinman's design; Philadelphia mintage was 608,000 with no mint mark.
1916 falls within the only two years (1916-1917) where the mint mark, when present, appears on the obverse near the rim rather than on the reverse as in all later years.
Live listings matching the 1916 Walking Liberty Half Dollar
Other dates and varieties in this series
What to check before you pay, specific to this date and its 608,000-coin mintage.
The same date runs from about $88 worn to $1,263 at the top of the scale — a 14× spread. Nearly all of that gap is condition, not the date on the coin, so work out where an example sits on the table above before deciding whether its asking price is fair.
A PCGS or NGC holder settles authenticity and grade in one go, which is most of what you're actually paying for at this level. The premium it adds is small next to the cost of being wrong about either.
Every Walking Liberty Half Dollar listed here is priced by an individual seller, so the same coin in the same grade can differ by a wide margin on any given day. Sort by price, check Metal Points and order history for a sense of the seller's record, and message them if the photos don't show enough to grade confidently.
About the 1916 Walking Liberty Half Dollar
Value depends heavily on condition. A well-worn example brings closer to $88, while an uncirculated one can reach $1,263 or more.
First year of issue for Adolph A. Weinman's design; Philadelphia mintage was 608,000 with no mint mark.
For anything you believe is a key date or an error, professional grading protects both buyer and seller by settling condition and authenticity before money changes hands.
The rest of the series, with what each is worth at the top of the grade scale.
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