AboutMyCoin1917 Wheat Penny (No Mint Mark) in MS62BN
A 1917 Wheat penny with no mint mark graded MS62BN is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and MS62BN 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 MS62BN means
A 1917 Wheat penny with no mint mark in Mint State (MS-62) Brown has no wear and marks that are scattered rather than concentrated: the open fields before and behind Lincoln’s portrait still show them, but the lustre is largely unbroken and the coin reads as uncirculated at a glance rather than only under a loupe. Brown is what copper becomes: the mint red has oxidised away across all but a few per cent of both faces. Nearly every 1917 Wheat penny with no mint mark that has spent decades outside an airtight holder is brown, and brown is much the cheapest of the three colours.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade MS62 BN, MS-62BN or MS-62 BN. They are the same grade and the same 1917 Wheat penny with no mint mark.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1917 Wheat penny with no mint mark is given run from PO1 to MS70RD. One step up from MS62BN is Mint State (MS-63) Brown. 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 1917 Wheat penny with no mint mark in MS62BN, 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.
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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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