I could be way off here, but it looks like the dies closed on a small metal button-like thing imprinting it onto the die and this is what the next coin looked like. I have something similar, but nowhere near as cool looking, where this happened with some foreign object (Mike Diamond diagnosis) and found another similar coin recently. Without any noticeable effect on the reverse if this is what happened there should be a matching struck through coin somewhere out there from the event where the die was damaged.


























