AboutMyCoin1914-D Wheat Penny in MS70RD
A 1914-D Wheat penny graded MS70RD is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and MS70RD is what a grader called the surface that survived. What that looks like on this coin is below. Where the grade sits against the rungs either side of it, and every way it is written on a slab, are in the table below.
What MS70RD means
A 1914-D Wheat penny in Mint State (MS-70) Red is flawless at magnification: no wear, no marks, no weakness in the strike, full lustre everywhere. It is the top of the scale and it is almost never awarded to a coin that was struck for circulation, so a listing offering one deserves the certification number checked before anything else. Red means at least ninety-five per cent of the original mint red is still on both faces. Copper starts to turn the day it leaves the press, so red on a 1914-D Wheat penny is a statement about how it was stored rather than about how it was struck, and it is worth a multiple of the same coin in brown.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade MS70 RD, MS-70RD or MS-70 RD. They are the same grade and the same 1914-D Wheat penny.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1914-D Wheat penny is given run from PO1 to MS70RD. MS70RD is the top of that scale, so there is no grade above it to step up to. 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.
How to check this yourself
Sold listings, not asking prices. The link below is already filtered to completed sales of a 1914-D Wheat penny in MS70RD, which is the difference between what somebody paid and what somebody hoped for. Until this site has a researched figure for this grade, that search is the answer — take the middle of several recent sales rather than the highest.
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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