Machine damage on the outline of the bust. If it were rounded, it might be interesting, but most of the this is just a machine issue, not a doubled die. The bust was damaged during the strike.
Here is a cent with the same thing. A side by side of the only example of profile doubling that is a doubled die compared with a MD cent: Note on this example the roundness of the hub doubling: On your coin the edge is like a step and not rounded downwards to the field.
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