1965 Dime. An Error Or PMD?

I wouldn't call it normal wear, just some kind of mechanical damage. Looks kind of extreme to be vending machine damage, maybe something intentional.

Yes it's PMD

Girlinlove; Your attitude towards coins being defaced is admired and I agree with you, coins are a part of history and should be studied, not destroy them.

Admirable sentiments. Unfortunately the public is being programmed to disrespect and even hate our history.

But a lot of damage you see is going to be just like this coin, unintnetional damage. These little chunks of metal get tossed aroudn, dropped, lost in parking lots and skidded around, etc. etc. etc. There are almost an infinite amount of ways coins get badly damaged.

And sometimes those deliberately damaging them see what they are doing as art work. Look at the old love tokens people used to make, ad it used to be commonplace to drill holes in coins to use for charm bracelets. I guess b/c there are literal billions of some coins that people see than as being common enough to not make a difference (one billion in perspective: one billion seconds is just over 30 years and a billion minutes ago Christ was walking the earth!).

Then there is "damage" the hobby actually likes. Some people take common dat Buffalo nickels and make what they call hobo nickels out of them. The argument about them is that a coin worth maybe a quarter or a little more is being runed into something people will treasure and pay a lot more for.

What I hate about some of these is when they, as I personally see it, disrespect the effigy of Liberty or a person by making it into a skull. Making anyone or s ymbol representing something as precious to Americans as personal liberty, to me, is being disrespectful, gross, and at the very least shamefully (likely unintentionally) flippant (for profit sake) with honorable and direly important people/subjects. But that is just my opinion.

Yep, just PMD.