1994 Lincoln Memorial Cent - Steps Over Lincoln Oddity

The lines look a bit far apart. Especially when you look at how close the doubled stairs are to each other on 1998 1¢ WDDR-014 (Confirmed stairs through statue DDR).

It's a bit late for me to make one right now, but I think an overlay could help visualize if the lines are too far apart or not.

I think that @e&v might be right that these parallel lines are scrapes on the die rather than doubled stairs.

It looks cool! Again that guy had a rough night took it out on that die!

Question to expand learning.....
Since this oddity is affecting the center of the coin, can we rule out Feeder Finger Damage to the die?

I would say that since it affects the center it makes feed finger damage MORE likely the cause.

Remember that the dies faces are NOT completely flat, they ASE very slightly convex. That makes the center of the die the highest point. And on the memorial design there are "bays" at the center of the design that are at the same level as the field, the highest part of the die. So the bay area afound the Lincoln statue is the absolute highest point of the reverse die. Right where I would expect the feed fingers to make first contact with the die. (If the adjustment wasn't far enough off to make contact further out.)

Curious if this was posted to the correct thread as I don't see any other images you have posted here and it doesn't seem to match TB's images?


The secondary lines look too far apart like Tanman pointed out.
And Condor1 expressed my understanding of the convex nature of the die face for it to be feeder fingers.
(The 2018 dime I found had the feeder finger scrapes pretty deep in the center of the coin, but horizontal.)

The argument against feeder fingers might be the consistent and uniform thickness of the secondary lines.

Very interesting thread.

EDIT: What is the curved line in the bottom half of bay 2? If the top of the C (CENT) could this be a counter-clash?

On Panther's upper image, that is a DDR. The Stylobite lines of the column is showing below the columns. (Probably more of these were affected that way.

But the steps theory I feel is incorrect as it would have placed the statue area above the steps lines that would have been on the bay. (The last thing hubbed would have been the statue over the incuse marks on the dies bay area. I was wondering about an angled set of columns. But probably the same thing may happen, The lines would be under the statue: