03 (V) NiCKEL

This is neat...,how does this happen?

 

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It's a V-shaped deep scratch.

It goes over the rims, and the
raised area you see or feel is
due to the metal rising up from
the cut into the coin.

 

With some sort of pliers/wire cutters.

 

Snips! Deliberate damage

 

Here is an example I created a few years ago

 

And then you tossed it back into circulation only to be found by someone and posted here as a "$UPER RARE MINT ERROR $TAMPING"

 

All of the past newbie threads for Missing Clad layers and Nickels struck on Cent planchets over the past 8 months are because of thousands of Environmental Damaged coins I dumped into a CoinStar machine once!
I found them all metal detecting!

 

I think you do it just so you can then post the picture of all your environmentally damaged coins.

 

PMD. Appears to be a gouge and not made by a diagonal cutter as the lines aren't perfectly straight.

 

The lines were raised off of the surface of the coin and not dug into it,otherwise I wouldnt have even bothered posting it.

 

That last (edge-on) photo looks like something very sharp sliced into the coin at a shallow angle...?

 

Scratched not snips. Only damaged on one side. Snips would have made cuts on both sides.

 

Damaged

 

Looks like a miniature jewelers dremel type slotting bit. Agree with above.