Just my luck! 1912-D Lincoln Cent. RPM?

It is my custom to photograph every coin of interest in a new purchase. Often, features appear in the picture that I hadn't notice in the flesh.

This 1912-D looks resurrected from a terrestrial slumber at some point, or maybe it did time in Davy Jones' locker? Or did it venture too close to an uncovered skillet frying up a juicy serving of eggs and bacon?

Splattered generously with carbon spots like little barnacles, the photo alludes to a potential RPM. (FYI, my superior amateur photographic skills aside, the general impression throughout the whole coin is corrosive ED apart from the "skin tags".) I haven't seen any record online of such a variant for this date. If so, it figures my very first discovery coin would be on a specimen of "acquired taste"! Nicer grade too! Anyone else see it?

 

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I see die deterioration doubling on the date and it has also affected the mint mark.
Not a Repunched mint mark IMHO

 

Thank you, Mr. Ed.

Also, looking, the only candidate for a considerably larger mm would be the half of that year (or the quarter from a previous year?), The half has serifs that could poke your eyes out. My photo fluke does not. (I also couldn't reproduce it in subsequent close-up attempts.)