Numismatic Pareidolia
The color of the photo is off, but the surfaces seem off/enviornmental damage. It's not a die crack, that's for sure. One close up photo looks...
Damaged
Double Ditto
X4
No die abrasion - Both cents have enviornmental damage to their surfaces, including the 'arch' on the reverse of the '42 cent. Damaged surfaces...
Take a deep breath - that's just an expression that means without a photo, we can't determine anything about the coin - ie; it doesn't exist to us...
Only the very rare 1969-S Doubled Die Cents are rare. As stated above, over 500 Million of them were minted as normal coins - which your coin is....
The '2nd rim' has nothing to do with a doubled die. What you see is a very very minor, and common, mis-aligned obv. die. And the doubling is MD...
Spendable - no silver in it.
Based on your photos, the copper plating has been partially removed. It is not struck on an unplated zinc planchet.
These were called "morse code" nickels back then. They're die chips - and they occur on a few other dates around that time, as I recall.
I didn't write the article mentioned. Those are both genuine partial unplated zinc cents, imo.
spooned or aka: 'tapped' on the edges It's damaged, but still worth it's silver value.
glue - or worse
Please remember if it were that easy to find doubled dies and other errors in circulation, they wouldn't be worth much, because everyone would be...
circulation strike coins don't have a mintmark when they were struck at the Philadelphia Mint then. You have a clad dime, worth face value.
...or as I usually say - worn/overused dies, and the mechanical doubling common on these issues.
If you're talking about the weak lettering on the reverse of the dime, it appears to be a filled die strike, where grease or other machinery oil...
Everything you see on the Cent as 'different' or a possible error is all damage to the coin. sorry....
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