Is this doubling of the memorial? That's a tough one for me to see cuz I can't hardly tell the difference between all those lines and DDD. I got creative with angles and lighting. Hopefully I'm not just seeing things lol.
I always stand to be corrected but I'm 99% sure this is the result of a worn die. The inside of each column should have what you see that looks doubled. As the die wears this portion of the column tends to disappear over time. The same happens to the roof supports. Some early coins struck will show the support but eventually that also fades as does the base of the statue. ( But a missing statue base can also happen because of over polishing of the die ) I'm assuming this is a post '82 cent as I see some bubbling in the fields so that might highlight this area as a plating problem. If not post 82 then I still stand on my first opinion.
What year is it? There are lots of 90s coins with column doubling,this one looks like it might have a chance to be one...I'm no expert,just my opinion
I actually got some better shots of it. BTW it's a 1994D, as you might have guessed I'm looking for the Memorial doubling of the 1994P but I check both the P and D. It's quite often that both mints have curiously similar if not identical doubling errors. Anyhow, after some more creative photography I think I got some pretty clear images of the whole thing, including an explanation. It's a bad polishing job. On the left of the memorial you can see they've worn down the memorial to a floating roof while on the right it's just crazy double die deterioration. I've never seen the FG have DDD but this one has it! Still, I am perplexed as to what is going on with the pillar on the far left and far right and even where Lincoln is at. Last I remember there's not supposed to be two more coloms nor does DDD develop it's own DDD, or at least I don't think so, who knows, leave a die to punch till the wheels fall off and I'm sure it'll have all sorts of weirdness.
