AboutMyCoin1944 Wheat Penny (No Mint Mark) in MS62RB
A 1944 Wheat penny with no mint mark graded MS62RB is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and MS62RB 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 MS62RB means
A 1944 Wheat penny with no mint mark in Mint State (MS-62) Red-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. Red-brown is the middle designation: somewhere between five and ninety-five per cent of the original mint red survives on a 1944 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 MS62 RB, MS-62RB or MS-62 RB. They are the same grade and the same 1944 Wheat penny with no mint mark.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1944 Wheat penny with no mint mark is given run from PO1 to MS70RD. One step up from MS62RB is Mint State (MS-63) Red-Brown. In general terms, the higher the grade the more the coin is worth.
How to check this yourself
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