AboutMyCoin1921 Wheat Penny (No Mint Mark) in MS68RB
A 1921 Wheat penny with no mint mark graded MS68RB is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and MS68RB 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 MS68RB means
A 1921 Wheat penny with no mint mark in Mint State (MS-68) Red-Brown is finer than all but a handful ever certified: no wear, lustre that is complete and undisturbed, and at most one or two marks small enough that a grader had to hunt for them. Almost nothing from a circulating mintage survives at this level, because the coin had to escape the bag, the counting machine and sixty years of storage untouched. Red-brown is the middle designation: somewhere between five and ninety-five per cent of the original mint red survives on a 1921 Wheat penny with no mint mark graded this way and the rest has gone. It is much the widest of the three bands, and the one where two graders most easily disagree.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade MS68 RB, MS-68RB or MS-68 RB. They are the same grade and the same 1921 Wheat penny with no mint mark.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1921 Wheat penny with no mint mark is given run from PO1 to MS70RD. One step up from MS68RB is Mint State (MS-69) Red-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 1921 Wheat penny with no mint mark in MS68RB, 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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