Early in my Lincoln searching, I would run across these quite often, but never really got a solid answer from anyone about them, it is not a doubled die though. The best I can tell, it is a plating issue, similar to split plating, without the actual splitting, more of a stretching. This creates a void, in what looks like the center of the letters and gives it a doubled look.
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