AboutMyCoin1936-D Wheat Penny in MS60BN
A 1936-D Wheat penny graded MS60BN is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and MS60BN 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 MS60BN means
A 1936-D Wheat penny in Mint State (MS-60) Brown has no wear at all and is graded at the bottom of mint state for everything else: the open fields before and behind Lincoln’s portrait carry heavy contact marks from the mint bag, the lustre is dull or broken, and the coin has little eye appeal. Nothing about it circulated; everything about it was handled. Brown is what copper becomes: the mint red has oxidised away across all but a few per cent of both faces. Nearly every 1936-D Wheat penny 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 MS60 BN, MS-60BN or MS-60 BN. They are the same grade and the same 1936-D Wheat penny.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1936-D Wheat penny is given run from PO1 to MS70RD. One step up from MS60BN is Mint State (MS-61) 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 1936-D Wheat penny in MS60BN, 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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