• 1946 Wheat Penny Red
• How Much Is A 1946 Penny Worth
• 1946 Wheat Penny Value Misprinted
• 1951 D Wheat Penny
• 1946 Wheat Penny No Mint
• 1946 Wheat Penny Worth

1946 Wheat Penny No Mint Mark. 1946 S Lincoln cent wheat penny 'NO RESERVE' starting bid.05. 0 bids Ending Feb.

USA Coin Book Estimated Value of 1946-S Lincoln Wheat Penny is Worth $0.10 in Average Condition and can be Worth $0.64 to $2.17 or more in Uncirculated (MS+) Mint Condition. As a footnote, 1945 Pennies are not made with the usual 95 percent copper, 5 percent tin and zinc composition common for most years of Lincoln Wheat Penny coins. All Lincoln cents struck from 1944 through 1946 were made with metal from recycled. (Spoiler alert: a 1943 silver wheat penny is NOT made from silver! 1943 Silver Pennies Are Made Of Zinc-Plated Steel When I first got into coin collecting back in the early 1990s, I thought — like so many people who ask me about their coins here at The Fun Times Guide — that my silvery 1943 pennies were actually made from silver. 1946 United States one cent value. What is a 1946 US penny worth? (San Francisco mint, S over D variety) Value, specifications, and images for the 1946 Lincoln wheat one cent coin from the United States of America.

• 1946 Lincoln Wheat Pennies

Coin Info

1946 Wheat Penny Red

1946 was the last year that Lincoln Wheat Penny coins were made from a metallic composition deriving from expired ammunition shell casings used during World War II. These so-called “shell case pennies,” which are 95 percent copper, 5 percent zinc differ from the usual 95 percent copper, 5 percent tin and zinc composition used for most years of the Lincoln cent series. These slight metallic differences are only visually noticeable among uncirculated pennies.

Outside of the different metal composition among 1944, 1945, and 1946 Lincoln Wheat Cents, there are few variations to speak of regarding Lincoln Pennies from that era. As was the case throughout the 1940s, mintage figures were quite high in 1946, with more than one billion Pennies struck across all three U.S. Mint locations operating during that year. 991,655,000 one-cent coins were struck at the Philadelphia Mint, 315,690,000 were produced at the Denver Mint (D), and 181,770,000 were minted at the San Francisco Mint (S).

These highly common Lincoln Wheat Penny coins are readily available in nearly all grades, with specimens in the upper circulated grades and lower Mint State grades especially plentiful. Expect to pay around 20 cents for a decent, circulated example from any of the three mints; less than $5 will purchase a lustrous, Mint State specimen from the Philadelphia, Denver, or San Francisco mint. No proof coins were made in 1946, as all extraneous minting efforts beyond striking circulating coinage were concentrated on producing medals for soldiers returning home from combat in World War II.

Previous year: the 1945 Lincoln Wheat Penny

How Much Is A 1946 Penny Worth

Following year: the 1947 Lincoln Wheat Penny

1946 IMM-001
inverted ball serif mintmark
Lincoln cent
WIMM-001

Below is a 1946-S with an inverted S (San Francisco) mintmark. The style is a ball serif where the flat spot is normally found on the LOWER serif; the top serif is rounded. On the inverted example (IMM-001) the flat spot resides on the top serif. The mintmark punch appears to have been punched at an angle resulting in an incomplete punching of the S.

Illustrated below are what I figure to be a MDS to LMDS and a LDS. I have included shots of a NORMAL ball serif for comparison. In each case the arrows point toward the flat spot.

The ball serif is the least common mintmark found on the 1946-S Lincoln cent. If you have an earlier die state I would be thrilled to photograph it and add it below (email me).

A shot showing the entire date in relation to the mintmark:

Die markers: MDS to LMDS:
Remnants of old scratches above Y in LIBERTY

1946 Wheat Penny Value Misprinted

Die Markers: LDS:

1951 D Wheat Penny

A new set of scratches are through the Y in LIBERTY and some old scratches below GOD.

1946 Wheat Penny No Mint

1946 Wheat Penny Worth

Whole coin shots of an LDS 1946-S IMM-001: