1985 D Quarter Smashed Letters And More.

The marks above IGWT appear to be light scrapes, not Cuds.

Yet image looks like an 8 and the scrapes go completly through both bumps but not in the waist line of the bumps so to me it seems the die was hit with glancing blow with a grinding tool which left a raised impression on the coin with the grind marks left behind.

If raised, perhaps die chip-like features caused by damage to the die.

Contact marks can happen on a coin before the coin was placed in the cello. (Note the metal movement, created the raised area on your images) Or sometimes the coin damage can happen through the cello. The first images are showing where the metal contact happen, thus pushing a wave pattern in the fields. Business strike coins are not as protected as proof sets. We had an example posted the other day where you could see a weakness of the damage on the neck of a Quarter. You could see that the damage was done after it was in the cello. How? Because the lines were weaker on that area. I don't I save the image? The images of your coin and that area would have been a great side by side, so I've got to go thread diving to see if I can find that image. First I'm going to see if I had saved it and haven't make an image yet. But I feel your coin is damaged.

and what about the smashed lettering? on the line too?