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Some sort of "shearing" damage from circulation.
John1

It is just a damaged coin, possibly lodged between a mechanical element,ran over, caught in a sliding door,under a door!! who knows exactly how! but the fact is that it was not minted that way.safe to let it go, it's just worth face value.

The arrow is pointing at it Debbie Downer lol and all good boss I was more just wondering how the top half got peeled back in a 45 degree angle. My appologies for trying to learn

Thank you ijn1944

Since there is no possible process in the minting process, what you are seeing as the number 2 cannot possibly have been put there at the mint. For learning about errors, one of the best ways to do it is to do a thorough reading of how coins are actually made from start to finish. After a person has learned the process, it becomes a lot easier to determine what is a legitimate coin error from the mint and what is PMD.

Yes, where your arrow is pointing can look like a number 2. But since the minting process does not include someway of stamping the number 2 in weird places like this, then even if someone took the time to try to make a little 2 there (why?), there would be no added value to the coin.

The other option is:

Pareidolia p#259;r#8243;#299;-d#333;#8242;l#275;-#601;

n.
The perception of a recognizable image or meaningful pattern where none exists or is intended, as the perception of a face in the surface features of the moon.