1942 D Lincoln Wheat Cent - Triple Struck Or Soft Die - I Dunno

Looks fake to me too. The S is not on top like some of the letters appear.

What is the purpose for creating a soft die? It is used to alter a coin to make it look like an error coin. A normal coin is pressed with a soft die and alters, just one side of the coin. (If the die soft die is hard enough, it can push out the opposite side of the coin) using a soft die also makes the devices not looking mirrored like when a coin is vise squeezed into another coin.
How to tell if a soft die was used? On the image I posted earlier, the areas where the open devices are squeezed onto the coin will make it look like these areas are raised. But why does it look like that? Because the raised devices on the coin will be flattened by the fields on the soft die. I'll post it again so you can see that:

They are normal coins that area altered to attempt to be sold as a mint error coin. (which they are not, just PSD) So they are fakes, as they are altered to look like something it not.

Thanks Mike! It seemed that is the way this was heavily drifting but good to have a final word on it. Another fine example for my counterfeit files then.