Looks like damage to me. Some of the deepest defects on the reverse look like they are causing some surface irregularities on the obverse. And there is some heaped up metal along some of the edges of the voids.
Those indentations on the back look like PMD. Copper is fairly soft and wont necessarily "bend" after taking a hard hit esp if the coin is laying flat when the damage occurred.
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