AboutMyCoin1945-S Wheat Penny in MS64RB
A 1945-S Wheat penny graded MS64RB is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and MS64RB 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 MS64RB means
A 1945-S Wheat penny in Mint State (MS-64) Red-Brown has no wear, full lustre and only minor marks, none of them where the eye lands first. This is the grade at which a coin stops being judged by its faults and starts being judged by how it looks. Red-brown is the middle designation: somewhere between five and ninety-five per cent of the original mint red survives on a 1945-S Wheat penny 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 MS64 RB, MS-64RB or MS-64 RB. They are the same grade and the same 1945-S Wheat penny.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1945-S Wheat penny is given run from PO1 to MS70RD. One step up from MS64RB is Mint State (MS-65) Red-Brown. 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-S Wheat penny in MS64RB, 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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