It would not be an error, that is just the way the planchet turned out. Don't forget that there are hundreds of millions of these produced and not everyone is going to be perfect.
They all look like that. It denotes the direction the stock material was punched. The longer silver edge is the top of the stroke. The lesser copper edge is the bottom the cut. The metal pushes down wards during the punching.
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