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Message:: [QUOTE="rmpsrpms, post: 2796111, member: 31773"]I too am very fond of the 56-D. So many varieties to look for! It's one of my favorite rolls to purchase because of this. It has the RPM#1, arguably the boldest RPM of the series. And the RPM#8, one of the few completely-separated RPM's out there. Plus it has the two or maybe three D/S (as controversial as they are) which fuel endless debates. Several interesting BIEs exist as well. There was also the very interesting change to the master die that year to increase the size of the B in LIBERTY (see <a href="http://www.macrocoins.com/overlays.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.macrocoins.com/overlays.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.macrocoins.com/overlays.html</a> for an animation showing the change), which was supposed to help fix the BIE breaking problem. It didn't!! 56-D was the first year after the close of the SF Mint, so first year that Denver had to provide all the Cent stock to West Coast banks. This makes 56-D OBW rolls much more interesting, as they exist from banks that previously got their coins from San Francisco. I'm sure there are many more interesting tidbits about this mintage but just these few make 56-D Lincolns a must-have for Cent collectors.[/QUOTE]