Please help me identify

Can someone please help me identify this error on this penny if it is even an error at all? Thank you

 

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Someone put it in a vise or some other kind of crimping tool.
Not a mint error.

 

Are you sure? When I bought it it was marked as "major collar break"> were they wrong?

 

Yeah there is no way that was a mint error.

 

Okay thank you

 

Does the seller have a return policy? He certainly sold it to you with a fraudulent description.

 

No I bought it from a coin shop about 2 years ago.

 

I hope it was an inexpensive lesson.

 

guess he took you to the bank on a coin he smashed for intent to deceive you.

 

You will notice that in the crushed area there are still traces of the design/lettering/rim etc. These features had to be created before whatever caused the crushing, so it has to be PMD.

If a chunk of the collar had broken off and fallen away the design would still be normal, although possibly weak, and there would be a blank bulge outward from the rim.