Dave's Errors, you are 100% correct. I missed that part. The corrosion inside of the holes made me think zinc. Still, looks like some kind of damage even with a copper planchet.
-CH27
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
Often spending time in a parking lot and with just two grains of sand, could create that alteration of the coin to look like that. While it looks like an '8'. not that it is too small to really be a digit. Look at the full shot of the coin.
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