Counting machines cause damage to the coin to include the fields, they don't scoot letters around. The die itself has to do that, and we call it Machine Doubling...that's what this is.
With this one I would look carefully for notching at the corners of the "D". I don't see any and would agree that this is machine caused rather than a RPM. Hope this helps. I've recently started searching for RPM's, so I'm far from an expert and very open to anyone helping with information.
That is just part of a die clash that was not removed/polished off. Sometimes they get ignored and continue to be struck with coins with that clash. That line is formed by the roof during a clash.
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