AboutMyCoin1945-D Wheat Penny in XF45
A 1945-D Wheat penny graded XF45 is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and XF45 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 XF45 means
A 1945-D Wheat penny in Extremely Fine (XF-45) is Extremely Fine at its better end, which the trade writes as Choice: the wear touches the cheekbone and the jaw of Lincoln’s portrait and the hair above his ear and nothing else, the individual grains on the wheat ears and the strands of hair above Lincoln’s ear are complete everywhere around them, and appreciable mint lustre survives in the fields. It is the grade at which a circulated coin starts to pass for an uncirculated one at arm’s length.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade XF-45, EF45 or EF-45. They are the same grade and the same 1945-D Wheat penny.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1945-D Wheat penny is given run from PO1 to MS70RD. One step up from XF45 is About Uncirculated (AU-50). In general terms, the higher the grade the more the coin is worth.
How to check this yourself
Sold listings, not asking prices. The link below is already filtered to completed sales of a 1945-D Wheat penny in XF45, 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.
Not an appraisal. AboutMyCoin estimates from published specifications and does not authenticate or grade coins.
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