86'D Rosie? Opinions needed.

What happened to this Rosie?
Please look closely at the surfaces,
All opinions welcome.
Please vote, and I will reveal what I know if asked the question.

 

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When I look at something like this, I ask myself, "If you were asked to create this, how would you go about it?" One thought that occurs to me is shooting staples, from a high powered staple gun, at the obverse.

 

If found in the wild I could not say but if found in a Mint set, possible some impurity in the metal mix? Purely guessing here.

 

Fun fun staple gun wars. Had a few of them in my years building homes. After a thousand or so, Your hands and forearms turn to mush!

 

That is possibly the correct answer, looking at the tones on the surfaces.

 

If those flaws are recessed in the coin as opposed to raised, I believe that is a sidewalk coin. Someone stepped on it a few times.

 

It's mostly on the obverse, but I see a little on the reverse. It does appear to be MS. Hard to really say what it could be, but I'll guess a planchet flaw of some type? I figure if it was truly a sidewalk coin or similar, you wouldn't have bothered creating the thread.

So what do you know about it?

 

Yes, the coin is in mint state, but haven't quite figured out what caused the small fissures in the cladding. Some of the pits show the copper core. The coin really has me puzzled.
It could be a defective planchet?
It could be slag inclusions that fell from the coin after it was struck?
It could be some sort of strike thru?
I just thought that it was interesting.
It reminds me of PMD but it isn't. There isn't any evidence of metal being moved on the coin.

By the way, the copper on the surfaces is exactly that, It's very hard to see, there is a small edge, and looks to be missing copper cladding.

I am very puzzled?

 

I bought the mint set for these two.

 

Here are some updated photos of the Dime.
Just a reminder this was taken out of a mint set.
Therefore not PMD.
The copper tones are at the surface, partially missing clad.
But the pits are what puzzles me.

Thanks ahead of time for your help.
@paddyman98 @Beefer518 @tommyc03

 

I'm at a loss, so this is strictly a guess, that something shattered and was introduced to the coining chamber, some type of foreign matter. It's a sharp strike and I would think this might be wrong as it would have left the particles imbedded in the coin. So I may be contradicting myself. Let's see what the others have to say.