AboutMyCoin1952 Wheat Penny (No Mint Mark) in AU55
A 1952 Wheat penny with no mint mark graded AU55 is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and AU55 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 AU55 means
A 1952 Wheat penny with no mint mark in About Uncirculated (AU-55) shows slight wear at the highest points of the design and nowhere else: the cheekbone and the jaw of Lincoln’s portrait and the hair above his ear are just touched, the tips of the wheat ears and the upper edges of their stalks likewise, and most of the original mint lustre is intact. The trade writes it as Choice About Uncirculated, and it is the rung where the question stops being how worn the coin is and becomes how much lustre it kept.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade AU-55. They are the same grade and the same 1952 Wheat penny with no mint mark.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1952 Wheat penny with no mint mark is given run from PO1 to MS70RD. One step up from AU55 is About Uncirculated (AU-58). 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 1952 Wheat penny with no mint mark in AU55, 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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