1923 S Lincoln Cent Error?

What type of error would you call this?

 

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Not a Mint Error.. Damage IMHO

 

I want to check on this one. I am away from my references. That looks like a strike through to me. I am having trouble seeing damage without it affecting UNUM.
@paddyman98

 

Inside the craterlike feature you can also see the letters UNU from the word UNUM twice. Overlapping each other. I don't know of anything during the minting process that would cause that effect.

@Fred Weinberg

 

Callin the big guns ha?

 

I here ya, there area in question looks like three strikes to me.
@mikediamond

 

Paddy could compacted grease and debris become compacted with this look? I am imagining that the compacted strike thru became unattached three times before it flipped over and struck the planchet.
Is that possible?

 

Human Damage. Jim

 

I was thinking some kind of Grease Mold Doubling?
http://www.error-ref.com/grease-mold-doubling/

But probably not. @desertgem just called it PMD also

 

Also the letters are backwards. So some how clamped down on by another penny, but just the Unum part?

 

Very interested in seeing what @Fred Weinberg and @mikediamond have to say about this.

 

@Fred Weinberg - any thoughts on this one?

 

Just saw this thread -

I think Pickn&Grinin got it -

It appears to be a piece of compressed
metal (a flake or two off another planchet
that fell off the die at this point, and dropped
onto this planchet just before it was struck.

Notice that it's incused, which means something
positive, or raised, caused it. A piece of metal,
whether compressed metal/grease, or just a
piece of detached lamination, was in that area of
the die.

A 'dropped letter' type of error, imo.

What is unusual about it is that the piece that
came out off the die dropped in that exact spot,
just under the lettering that matched the compressed
piece of metal....usually they drop randomly, and not
right in the same spot as the original part of the die
that had the compressed metal.

I'd also like to see what Mike D. says about it.

 

Odd that no one has mentioned that the extra letters such as in the last photo show a straighter line alone the top, whereas on the cent they more curved. The letter "E" in the same photo show no sign of mechanical doubling in any direction so I think that has to be eliminated . The letters also do not exactly come close to being the same shape as the original. The thing that bothers me is how would a dropped letter grouping not damage the tip of the E? Jim

 

Okay, times up!

Pickin and Grinin, Fred-