AboutMyCoin1930-S Wheat Penny in XF40
A 1930-S Wheat penny graded XF40 is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and XF40 is what a grader called the surface that survived. What that looks like on this coin is below. The nearest grade of this date this site does have a researched figure for is About Uncirculated (AU-50), at $7 to $16, from sales and public data.
What XF40 means
A 1930-S Wheat penny 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 1930-S Wheat penny.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1930-S Wheat penny 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.
How to check this yourself
Sold listings, not asking prices. The link below is already filtered to completed sales of a 1930-S Wheat penny in XF40, 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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