Mechanical Doubling or Broad strike?

I know there's mechanical doubling all over the coin. Even the image of Lincoln shows doubling. The "L" in liberty is missing, and the "1" in the date is very faint. I tried really hard to get good pictures. I hope these are clear enough. 1991 Lincoln cent. Very faintly, it almost looks like "Liberty" was stamped at least 2 X.

Is it a broad struck coin? Or is it just a "nothing," coin?

 

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These are plated cents, and the plating isn't holding. On LIBERTY and the motto, those are just grease fills. These are common casualties when these cheap coins are struck.

 

Thank you. It makes sense that it's grease filled for the missing number/letter. Amazing how the mechanical strikes can affect the entire coin and they're really not anything special.

Much appreciated Eddiespin.

 

I have one almost identical to your coin, it's struck thru grease and also has slight doubling all over, so i would assume yours is also struck thru grease...

 

Your Cent is Zinc with a thin layer of copper. The doubling looks like split plate doubling as you can see the zinc. The missing and/or details are due to the coin being struck through grease with worn die. A nice piece to add to your collection but unfortunately it's not worth much.

 

That is still a cool looking penny William. These zinc pennies seem to have a lot of bubbling issues!

Here's an 83 I found a while back. More extreme bubbling than a lot of them. They look interesting, but too bad they don't have much value.

 

that '83 has a lot more bubbles than I've seen on one before, very interesting!

 

Thank you Collecting Nut. They do look cool. I'll probably just keep it for that reason.

 

Sure. But think of it. These things are minted like machine-gun fire, and under very violent striking conditions, to ensure these strikes will take. They're a far sight from being individually handcrafted for quality and workmanship, lol. YouTube has some good videos on this process. What's amazing to me is that many of these actually come out as intended.

 

Yep. Minor grease filled die and plating issues, IMHO

 

Southside I want to compliment you on your attitude about learning this great hobby we all enjoy. So many newbies come onto Coin Talk and want to argue with information provided by folks who have been doing this for years. It's really refreshing when someone like you comes along with a true desire to listen and learn!! Thanks for being a great student!!!!

 

It is very refreshing and so for I am glad to see it.

 

Neither one of these look like struck through to me. There's way too much lack of detail on both sides to simply be struck throughs on either of them in my opinion.

What it exactly is, I can't say, but I don't think it's struck through Grease in either case.
I think struck through grease is everyone's "go to" when some detail is missing but I find it gets applied too broadly and quickly. There's more going on here.