Here's what severe Die Deterioration (worse of the worse) looks like. There was almost 11 billion of these minted, so they used these dies way past normal retirement. This example (my example) has a very mushy and a melted appearance to it. The devices are falling off the edges, and details are pretty weak.
Looks like you have the beginnings of a decent die break protruding out of the top left corner of the memorial, at least that's what it looks like to me.
If you are referring to the devices touching the rim. There was an issue lf the master hub spreading. They kind of look like this each year until 1968. In 1969 they created a new master hub. The same issue was noticed on the 1982 large date cents. Not a big thing. Why because they all looked like that. If I'm not seeing what you are seeing, give me an arrow to see what you are thinking of?
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