@Rebel, first welcome to CCF. Second, it certainly looks like a scratch on the surface of the coin to me. This damage starts out on the rim and then cuts through the fields and multiple letters. In a couple places it looks like a little metal has been "smushed" up next to the scratch so I don't think that it is a struck through wire or something similar.
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