Was Wondering If Anyone Had An Idea As To How This LWC Oddity Came To Be.

Very interesting find!

Weight? Could it be multiple coins pressed together during the creation process? 1995 would be zinc, so I would expect to see some silvery metal shining through...

If you look at it just the right way, looks like a 1595

The marks are hallmarks. "EP" in an oval is stamped onto electroplated nickel-silver items. The ampersand is, well, an ampersand. Can't tell what the other stamps might be; the "snake" might just be a backwards "S", which seems likely given that everything else is backwards.

That the "EP" and ampersand are backwards, is curious. The engraving on the punch should be backwards (like a coin die), making the stamped image read correctly. That it is backwards on the stamped image might indicate somebody - a counterfeiter - trying to make their own fake hallmark stamps, not realising they need to engrave them backwards.

As for the apparent multiple-striking, the clear indication that somebody was using this coin as a piece of scrap metal to test their punches, tells me that whatever caused it, also was as a result of getting used as a piece of test scrap metal, and that it didn't come out of the mint looking like that, in 1921, or 195x, or 1995. (the "second date" reads "9595", so whatever stamped it, stamped it twice).

Interesting. Created outside the mint, but how?

I'm betting on the reverse is all kinds of beat up. (Can you post up the reverse?)
I'm counting as many as 6 'Libertys' on it.

Here is an image of the edge. Pardon my wedding band. Only way I could get the coin to stand on edge. Had time this morning to snap and post a picture.