1856 Flying Eagle Cent

This will be interesting to see better photos. While some of the details are tough to see in the pic provided, it looks to have the correct lettering style in "OF".

That said, this coin appears to be cleaned regardless of real or not.

Please post more pictures......if genuine, it is valuable (very valuable) even if cleaned.

Here is my genuine example of the whole obverse.

This looks promising!

Send it in to a real TPG.

Also curious was you paid.

First things first: match it up to known Snow variety examples; Datadragon's pictures are of two completely different dies, and the coin to the left looks like it is a business strike.

The 6 on the date looks very suspect to me. Notice how it is much thicker and the bottom part of the 6 where it loops to the "spine" of the number goes upward....Like a modified 8 in 1858. In Rick Snow's photo of a genuine coin, the loop moves downward. You can also use PCGS price guide as an example; Just click on the PCGS # to the left of the the date collumn. Photos will show the way an authentic 6 will look like. I ran into this same issue also coming across a doctored 1858 to 1856 Flying Eagle cent. Have some experts look at it in hand before sending to NGC or PCGS because if it is NOT genuine, the grading service level for this coin will be EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE to grade an altered coin.