Controversal 1956 D / S Lincoln Memorial Cent

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.