@aviate, first welcome to CCF. Second, I agree that your coin was most likely heated and this caused the flan deformation. In the absence of solid evidence of this occuring at the mint (such as it being pulled from a mint-sealed bag), I would feel pretty comfortable calling this damage which does not add to the value of the coin.
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