Controversal 1956 D / S Lincoln Memorial Cent

I would check to see if you do have that faint D MM first. Grading is not the issue here but rather to establish if indeed it's double D Mint Mark. When in doubt don't do anything--- Brasso

I can tell from the images, and will repeat what I said before...you would be completely wasting your money trying to have that graded.

ANYWAY, the purpose of this post is this:

You don't send new discovery pieces in to grading services hoping to convince them to agree with you. Grading services digress to the information provided by variety experts when they encapsulate coins, only matching attributes and markers on 'suspected' varieties. If they find a listing, they will label it as such. They ARE NOT in the business of assigning variety status to new discoveries.

If you want a variety assigned as a new discovery, you will HAVE to send it to an attributor. That could be John Bordner, James Wiles, Billy Crawford, Ken Potter, or myself.

If you send your coin to a grading company you will get it back without your check and without a holder...two reasons:

1. It has been harshly cleaned.
2. It is not a known variety.

You sure are defensive.

coffeegod, hold on to that coin. If it is a true die variety, others should turn up and that will confirm your coin. If none do, then no big loss, eh? I am in a similar situation with a few Indian Head cents. I need to send them to an expert for his assessment, but I know the graders won't look at them simply because they're not in the business of researching coins.

I'm sitting here laughing my butt off with the last comment.....I haven't the foggiest clue what TPG and such are. I have another window open to the glossary page to define what you are telling me. Research and learn......that's the key, and yes I do take his CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. Just don't need the other boldness. His knowledge as with the rest of you are invaluable to what I need to learn.
Thanks

Didn't make the connection, though the only people I'm familiar with when it comes to coins, are the people on the coins. Ask me a question about medicine and it'd be completely different. Know offense to Coppercoins.........just don't know who he is. I'll look him up though. It's still not about one person, but the mark on the coin.

Ok......let's close this topic now. The original topic of curiosity has blown into personal indifferences. I admitted to a mistake that I had no idea it would be so bad for a coin. Learned and engraved. I respect and admire everyone for there comments to whatever degree. There are no postings next to names that would allow a rookie like mew know whom I'm speaking too. That's why I use generalizations. I think you all are great. That's what makes us unique. Just trying to start off a new hobby with only what I know. I'm learning as all of you have done.

I didn't realize my posts would be taken personally. I teach in a direct manner, I don't flower or sugar coat my posts. If you have junk, I say so. If you have something good, I also say so. I owe it to whomever comes here looking for truthful information and can accept the answers they are given.

Regarding this coin - I have seen the original poster mention a few times that they were going to submit the coin for grading, and through experience I can say with 100% surety that this would be a waste of time and money. Wait for a real variety to come along that's well known, valuable and worthwhile.

As to whether this is a real variety - probably not. I have seen thousands of stains, flow lines, shadows, and damage proported to be varieties, and this looks categorically just like that. It has nothing to do with the owner of the coin, whether the coin has been cleaned, or anything else. It's a straight forward answer to a question I am 100% qualified to answer.

And if I am wrong, and this coin turns out to be a variety that is yet unreported and unknown...sending it to a grading service would STILL be a waste of time and money because none of them are in the business of attributing new varieties.