It's common and within mint tolerances. Up until 1990 the mint marks were punched into the dies by hand, and therefore, the position merely had a target area underneath the date leading to variation in mint mark placement on individual dies.
However if the mint mark is touching the date then some people may pay a small premium for it also depending on how slanted the mint mark is.
who cares about the mint mark what about the color did you take this piture in greyscale or is a silver cent or plated or what?Lighting issuse? Can you post pictures of the whole coin front and reverse? is it plated? it is a wheat cent right?
Obviously the OP cares, that's what he asked about. Appears he used a LED type light to take the picture, which would explain the color, of course its a wheat cent, its 1956.
I ment I dont care about the mint mark cause I dont know much about mint mark placment. I just didnt understand the color of the cent id bet it was done in greyscale or black and white but i guess a white light emmiting diode could do that.
most digital cameras comes with software that allows the user to doctor a image any way they want to after the photo has been taken. photos can be easily fixed in any color , a copper cent image can even be fixed to look like silver or gold. this is one of our modern marvels.
