Looks like the coin may have had a light scratch that split the plating slightly raising the surface a bit. Die cracks are usually irregular in shape. This looks to straight to be that. The could not be a lamination issue on zincolns. Sometimes a piece of plating scrap can be struck on to a coin. I see no evidence of this on your coin. A die gouge only appears on fields. So a die scratch would be next to impossible as this would have to had happened in the deeper parts of the die.
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