AboutMyCoin1909 Wheat Penny (No Mint Mark) in XF40
A 1909 Wheat penny with no mint mark graded XF40 is worth $10 to $28, from sales and public data. The grade below it is Very Fine (VF-35), and the same coin in that grade is worth less — how much less varies from date to date.
Extremely Fine (XF-40)
$10 to $28
From sales and public data. Figure occasionally updated. Not an appraisal or declaration of worth or value.
What XF40 means
A 1909 Wheat penny with no mint mark in Extremely Fine (XF-40) has light wear on the high points and nowhere else: the individual grains on the wheat ears and the strands of hair above Lincoln’s ear survive except where the cheekbone and the jaw of Lincoln’s portrait and the hair above his ear have just begun to flatten, and traces of mint lustre often remain in the protected areas beside the devices.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade XF-40, EF40 or EF-40. They are the same grade and the same 1909 Wheat penny with no mint mark.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1909 Wheat penny with no mint mark is given run from PO1 to MS70RD. One step up from XF40 is Extremely Fine (XF-45). In general terms, the higher the grade the more the coin is worth.
A blank in the value column is a grade this site has not researched, not a grade the coin is worth nothing in.
← Very Fine (VF-35)Extremely Fine (XF-45) →
What it sold for
No certified sale of a 1909 Wheat penny with no mint mark in XF40 is recorded in the sources this site reads, which is what you would expect at this price: certifying a coin costs a large share of what this one is worth, so almost all of them change hands raw and unrecorded. The range above is what the published guides say rather than what anybody paid, and it is the weakest figure on this page.
How to check this yourself
Sold listings, not asking prices. The link below is already filtered to completed sales of a 1909 Wheat penny with no mint mark in XF40, which is the difference between what somebody paid and what somebody hoped for. If what you find sits outside $10 to $28, trust what you found: it is newer than this page.
Completed sales of a 1909 Wheat Penny (No Mint Mark) in XF40 →
Where these figures come from
We gather publicly available data from several public sources including eBay, PCGS, NGC, Numista, USA Coin Book, PriceCharting, and others.
Not an appraisal. AboutMyCoin estimates from published specifications and does not authenticate or grade coins.
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