I have seen many uncirculated Indian cents with this exact same style of damage. There is never any abrasion or scratches outside of/around the damage area.
Does anyone have an idea of what it could be? PMD? Some type of strike through? I have always written it off to PMD, but the more I see of them the more I wonder if it is some mishap during the minting process.
The fact that the metal looks displaced downwards into the fields and upwards into the "N" tells me this is PMD. Nice looking coin and a pretty obvious MPD in the denticles under the 8!
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