1955-P Lincoln, Real Skull Thumper

That is a very nice variety. Doesn't it seem like there are a lot more varieties in the 50's?

Yes, I thought maybe a combination of both lam and crack.
you have a die crack above, a lam and a decent chip on top.

It's not a variety, its just a very strong die crack. If it were a variety, every coin would look like that from coin one till the last one. The die crack happened sometime after many normal ones were struck first. Die cracks start off as a small crack and later get worse with each strikes after that. So it is a normal function of a die that is used too long after problems started to appear. This happened a lot in the 1950's Cents. They squeezed every cent out of every die they could. (pun intended)

This is NOT a lamination, it is a die crack with a chip as noted by the originar of the thread. They are rather common (also previously noted), but examples this far outside the norm can sell for a dollar or so just because they are wonderful illustrations of what can happen when a die starts to fall apart.

And as Coop explained, these are NOT varieties. They technically fall under 'die errors'. Something that happens to the die during production that repeats itself on every subsequent coin struck until the die is repaired or retired. Other examples of die errors are clashes, counter clashes, and Cuds.

If you can take the die off the press mid-stream and see the problem on the die, and the problem did not start with the die when it was new and fresh, it's a die error.