Why does this letter look like this?

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From your picture it looks like it took a hit and displaced the metal.

 

your poll makes no sense

 

Hard to tell with an out of focus picture but could be split plate doubling.

 

A better image, in focus would help you get better answers.

 

Here's another pic. l

 

This is my first time hearing of split plate doubling, but, according to http://www.error-ref.com/split-plate-doubling/ , it only occurs on zincolns and typically on broadstrikes. From the description, I'm not entirely sure what you are showing actually is split plate doubling, either. Your arrows look like they're pointing to typical strike doubling to me.

Of course, I could be wrong, because, like I said, this is the first I've ever heard of it.

 

@Rare-Tim, your pictures are not really clear enough to tell anything from. If you are using a phone, I would suggest either getting a macro lens or at least try shooting through a loupe to magnify areas of detail.

 

Thx for the help.

 

Can u see doubling on the pillars?

 

It... could be? You've magnified the image well beyond the usable resolution of the camera you're using, causing all kinds of pixellation and artifacts.

 

What about the bottom of the N in IN? It looks like it is a DDO?

 

This is the final coin. What about the top and bottom of the Land I in LIBERTY? And above the B that's a notch right?

 

His pic is so bad I thought it was a zincoln and the arrows point to the shadow like doubling left at the top of the letters...LMAO

 

Hint:

There is no way that you can have doubling in the same word in two different directions.

 

Are you sure? What would the letter look like on a strike doubled, doubled die coin. Perhaps what you were expressing to @Rare-Tim is that a true doubled die coin cannot have doubling in two different directions.

 

Looks like a "T:.

 

@ Paul M...thankx for the link!

 

[sighs aloud.]

yes, I am sure if it is a Doubled Die.

I was speaking about the 'real' doubling, not the non-acknowledged doubling, or the ones that you go out of your way to comment on just so blather on meaninglessly.

I know that is a big word for you, use Google for a definition.