I believe this is post mint damage. I am not sure how it occurred, but perhaps a blow, or pressure, was applied to the effigy to cause it to indent slightly relative to the adjacent fields.
I cannot tell for sure from your photos, but this looks like a coin from an obverse die that I catalogued as O2U-A9. If that is true, then I have other coins from that die without the damage.
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