What made this pattern, and is it a struck thru?

Found this in a roll of pennies.

 

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defiantly PMD, too much going on it's in the field the device and the rim. Someone was having fun.

 

Someone got a small punch and decided to decorate the Cent with incuse squares. Damaged in circulation, not a strike through or any other type of error either.

 

Vice job. Not the usual vice job, but rather the pattern of a vice face.

 

Thanks alot guys for the responses. I like the unusual, so it will join the "odd collection".

 

I agree that it is marks made from the "teeth" of a vice.
I also like unusual and damaged coins.

 

The OP’s coin is definitely damaged.

 

Yours is nicely damaged as well.

 

Almost looks like a failure of the waffling machine (if there had been one back then).

 

Some information - “Squeeze Job” or “Vice Job” or “Garage Job” (error-ref.com)

 

Looks like someone took a waffling hammer (looks like a meat tenderizer) and hit with 3-5# hammer

 

I would but I hate Lincoln burgers. I'd rather eat a medium rare Buffalo Burger instead.

 

Incorrect spelling is surely a lesser vice of mine. But I'm not the only won.
https://www.error-ref.com/squeeze-job-or-vice-job-or-garage-job/
I think squeezing coins is bad behavior.

 

Neat.. you shared the same information I did a few posts before you

 

Error ref.com uses Vice

 

https://www.zoro.com/static/cms/product/full/Z_rx6-icpEx_.JPG
a bushing hammer ill make you 1

 

Hey, thanks alot for the link.

 

Interesting. I just can't figure out why people like to deface coins!