Last night, Stack’s Bowers released the grading results for the 232 Omega Cent Sets that will be sold at auction on December 11th. View all the Lots Here.
We broke down the grades and actually came up with fascinating numbers that surprised us, along with the differences between the Philadelphia Mint Coins results and those with the Denver Mintmark.
Note these are preliminary numbers, and we will verify all the totals, but this is how things break down. Let us know what you think!
2025 1C 24-Karat Gold Cent Omega Privy
Total # of coins: 232
- Graded MS-68: 6
Percentage: 2.59% - Graded MS-69: 226
Percentage: 97.41%
2025-P 1C Omega Privy, RD – Philadelphia
Total # of coins: 232
- Graded MS-63: 31
Percentage: 13.36% - Graded MS-64: 75
Percentage: 32.32% - Graded MS-65: 111
Percentage: 47.84% - Graded MS-66: 15
Percentage: 6.46% - Graded MS-67: 0
Percentage: 0%
2025-D 1C Omega Privy, RD – Denver
Total # of coins: 232
- Graded MS-63: 1
Percentage: 0.43% - Graded MS-64: 10
Percentage: 4.31% - Graded MS-65: 134
Percentage: 57.71% - Graded MS-66: 84
Percentage: 36.21% - Graded MS-67: 3
Percentage: 1.29%
Coinweek’s First Take on the Grading Results.
1) There were NO MS-70 Grades given for any of the coins.
2) Philadelphia coins overall were of poorer quality than the Denver coins. Not even close IMO. It is hard to believe that with a special striking that the mint would produce 13+% of the coins at a MS-63 grade level. That sure surprised us!
3) Of the Philadelphia and Denver coins, there were only 3 MS-67 coins graded with None Higher, and all of these were Denver coins.
4) Now looking at the sets, just based on the overall grades for the Gold, Philadelphia and Denver coins, our selection as The Best Set is #212. It grades out at 69-65-67 respectively.
5) In our opinion, the Best Balanced Graded sets with 69-66-66 are sets # 69, 156, 164, 168, 181, 190, 213, 214 and 220.
6) And finally, in Last Place is Set #64, with grades of MS-68 for the Gold, MS-63 for Philadelphia and MS-65 for Denver.
7) The only other surprise were the grading results from the Final set #232. The Philadelphia coin only managed to achieve a grade of MS-64. Don’t get us wrong, this is still a beautiful and extra special set. It was just disappointing considering it also comes with the dies. We would have hoped for more.
Other Coverage of the Omega Coins:
Please Note: CoinWeek will have additional information and commentary on the Omega Coins, The upcoming Auction, and then on the Auction Results this coming week. Stay Tuned, as we expectsome lively comments and opinions!
Previous Articles
- Last ‘Omega’ Cents, Including U.S. Mint’s 24K Gold Piece, Head to Auction Dec. 11th
- The Final Lincoln Cents Ever Made: PCGS to Grade Ultra-Rare 2025 Omega Coins
Download a PDF of the Grading Results Here
Give us your commemts below and let CoinWeek know what you think of the grades? Are they what you expected or were you surprised? Let us know!
This is ridiculous! The last 232 sets of circulating Cents and they come back graded as mostly 63-66?! On any other coin that would be a great spread. They aren’t even meant for circulation!
Sucks that we the people wouldn’t even get a shot at buying them only the upper crusters. Our taxes pay for them to be made, maybe they should’ve held a lottery for them $5 -$10 a ticket sell 500,000 tickets that’s $2.5million to $5 million dollars and even the little man would’ve had a shot too, and personaly design wise the gold one should be a wheat penny the other 2 p&d memorial cents just saying that would’ve been cooler make them real copper cents or copper, steel, and zinc for the non memorial non wheat variations after all its the longest standing obverse in any coin anywhere in the world and not even a ms or proof 70 out of the whole lot? throw those into circulation and make a set worthy of the penny so many have loved and collected for over a hundred years just my opinion could’ve cents the Lincoln cent out with a more deserving goodbye
I agree with the lottery type system to give lower income people a chance. Also, what if years down the road Congress and the President decide to make Cents again due to public interest, then what happens to the premiums paid for the “last cents” sets?
Agree let the little guy have a least one shot. Its something I’ll never have, just a dream, and a picture of dream.
“Surprising” please. The “z” spelling has been out of use for a couple of hundred years.
Squirrel – You are 100% correct. Must have been in a time warp with two hours of sleep last night. Thanks for the heads up!LOL
Thanks – I know that feeling all to … I mean too … well.
Everyone is under the impression that the last cent struck was at the Philly mint because that’s where the ceremony was. Checking the certification numbers, Denver struck the very last coin.
Would be nice to have one.
great info thanks
The one with the fingerprint makes me cringe.
This is such a wonderful idea to finish off the series. And the denomination. What I would give to be able to afford one of those sets. I think it’s one of the most brilliant ideas in the past decade. Way to finish strong us mint!
I would not be a buyer of these even if I had the money.
Personally, I think the gold cents are only worth anything. If they had struck the regular P and D cents in 95% copper, then, there would have been something to write home about.
What a neat collection of coins, it would be cool to own one of those sets! The one with the dies is especially cool!
Out of my league but surely interesting!
I will follow the live bidding to see how quickly the prices increase on the last day. I’d love to be one of the 232 people to own this set!
Not very appealing
Surprised to learn that the quality was inferior for the penny coins from the Philly mint compared to the Denver mint.
I would love to have this set in my collection but my bank account says no
Gimmicky and not worth it sadly
Not for the common collector. Oh well.
Sad to see it go. The start of many collections and you would still find an occasional wheat cent. Good bye my old friend.
I can’t even afford to buy a penny.
I remember sifting through coins I got as change, looking for something special.
Like all good things, coin collecting has become a business and ACTUAL coin collecting is, pretty much, gone.
Now special coins are made on purpose and only sold to sellers or those who can afford them.
There’s no way I could afford to buy a set with the current bids at +12k. Only the rich collectors will be able to bid for a set of these. It’s sad that others less wealthy collectors are left out in the cold with no access to bidding for a set. Maybe some other method should’ve been used to allow average collectors access to a set.
Wow! Of the Philadelphia and Denver coins, there were only 3 MS-67 coins graded. Personally I would have expected more.
I would love to have a set. I wonder if there were any mint errors in the group?
I’d love to own a set of these, but I know that’ll never happen. My pockets aren’t quite deep enough to buy one. But they are pretty, even if the Mint didn’t exactly do the best job that they could have minting these.
The price results of the auction will be interesting.
The price results of this auction will be interesting.
Not surprising one bit…
Nice set, but out of my league!
it’s ridiculous that the average collector won’t even have a chance to own any
Pipe dream coins for the average collector.
Outstanding article. Coins were described well but they are a bit pricey for the average collector.
Not my favorites I must say, that being said….I really liked the information about the grading used.
Very cool coins, would love to own one
Worthless. Ugly coins, lousy grades. Just a scam. They’ll never be worth anything, just like any other coin made after 1965. Anyone paying for this is a sucker.
Would love to have an omega Penny set, but way outside my price range
Can’t wait to see what these sell for
I don’t think the grade will affect the value of any of these sets.
Sad in so many ways!
Another US Mint gimmick.
These aren’t actual business strikes, as real 2025 circulating coinage isn’t made of gold and doesn’t have a privy mark either. If viewed as comparable to patterns, not rare either, as a mintage of 232 makes it a high Judd R-3 between 201 and 500.
Whatever the final hammer, these will be in the top 5 or top 10 as the most relatively overpriced coins in the world based upon the actual collectible attributes.
Hard to believe that the penny is gone will make it easier but we shouldn’t see anymore 29.99 signs
Only for the elite to obtain sets like these. Maybe Coinweek will give away a set one day
Hope springs eternal!
So where do these coins stand in a collecting future.
Would be nice to have but not possible for me.
Hard to believe that there wasn’t any higher graded coins
Very Interesting, Be nice to own a set
With the penny gone we shouldn’t see anymore 29.99 signs!
I cannot believe a good portion of the final cents are of lower BU quality. The mishandling of the final one with the thumb surprised me.
The U.S. Mint creates another rarity and John Q. Public is not invited. Let the rich have their little itty bitty privy mark. Why is this such a big deal anyway?
Sad to lose the cent. My entry coin to collecting.
I hate that the penny is no longer. It was my first love when starting the coin thing. And still is my favorite til this day. But i never really got into anything newer than 2009, And i mostly enjoyed wheaties and indian heads. So it really doesnt change much for my enjoyment, but just sounds horrible to my ears. These 24k ones are sharp looking though.
Should have been a lottery so any American has a chance to get one of these.
Coins for the rich. Still love the coin with the fingerprint on it at auction.
One of the things that surprised me the most was the condition of the defaced mint dies being sold with the final penny set. Seeing those neat, thin “X” marks on them – it’s a far cry from other defaced mint dies I’ve seen, where the coin is pretty much unrecognizable!
That was quite interesting,
I think they should have don’t the original design from 1793 at least in the back of the coin , they coins then where much more beautiful than today’s coins , just my opinion. Thanks
What a rarity, we still should have the cent. I will look for this collection. Help me coinweek. Thank you
Great concept, but the run should have been larger by a couple orders of magnitude
Just wrong how the mint has decided to handles these special issues.
They might have graded higher if they didn’t let people put their bare fingers all over them.
Cool issue
It’s great to have the 3 coin set. But, it would have been nice to put into circulation a cent that us folks, without the means to purchase the advertised set, could possibly enjoy this ending of the cent. Maybe as the West Point quarter was done.
Thanks
I had hopes to be able to have a set, but at those prices, well, that dream has been dashed. I totally and wholeheartedly agree with all that felt that the ‘little guy’ never stood a chance at obtaining a set of the omegas. The lottery system seems like a great idea, but I am sure that won’t be considered. Honestly, I could not have afforded them anyway. I am very sad that the penny is going away. That was my intro into collecting.
Too bad none of these are available to the common folk
So sad to see the cent go. I loved CRH for errors in the 1¢ boxes as there were more to find than any other coin IMO.
Nice coins that I will see since the big money will get them.
I will just keep looking at mt wheat pennies.
Very sad to see the penny go away. I think it will lessen the chances that young kids will be interested in collecting coins and numismatics. Pennies were my introduction to coin collecting as a kid because it was cheap and fun.
Will be interesting to see how these auctions turn out. Lol… Out of my league for sure.
It’s nice that they’re doing something to say farewell to the cent, but it would have been nice for the average man to have had a shot at owning one.
Very Nice Coins but no MS-70 sad
Still having trouble figuring out the legality of the gold cent, did congress authorize it? As for the p & d cents, only 232 people will ultimately care enough to become the winning bidders. Should have released one million of each into circulation
Brand new and I’ll never have one.