I assume your coin is a 1972? If so, "master doubling" was painfully common that year and very well may explain what you're seeing. If you go to the doubleddie.com link I shared with you in another thread and look under the doubled did listings for the 1972-P cent, you'll find an excellent explanation of this. Just scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. It also doesn't matter which mint it was from as this impacts coins from each of them.
The 2 is strike-doubling, Brittany. That means it's a consequence of the striking. The best thing you can do to understand that is to just go to YouTube and put in "minting coins" or some such search terms and see for yourself how rapidly these are minted. One tiny slip or twist or hop when those dies hit together, and this is an example of what's left over. We could tell that's what it is because we've seen a lot of these. Yes, we're that bored. But that's just the way we are, and there's nothing anybody can do about it.
