190? Indian Cent: Double Strikethrough or Century+ Old PMD?

This is the first Indian cent I've found coin roll hunting. It was in a shotgun-housed Brinks roll I got at the bank yesterday.

Is this a multiple strike-through (I'm pretty certain that at least some of the indentations are strike-throughs), or is it a 100-119 year old case of PMD? (the tarnishing looks as old as the rest of the coin)

I see what look like coarse screw threads that are hopefully visible in the closeups, and I can conceive of scenarios for some piece of machinery falling into the works as the coin was being struck, so I just don't know.

In unrelated news, it looks like there's a grease strikethrough over "STA" on the obverse.

Does anyone know if there are any distinguishing features that would enable me to determine the last digit of the date?

 

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My guess is that it's 1901. On any other dates, there probably would have been some part of the number on the other side of the dent. But 1 is skinny, and would probably fit in the giant dent. But, that might not be true. The best you can do is give an educated guess and put it in your collection.

 

Thanks. This coin's got a story, I wish I knew what it was!

It must have been "somewhere" for quite some while. I'm guessing it fell out of a collection dump, or (unlikely) part of the "Great American Coin Hunt" (as a stunt donation?)

Oh well, I've got bigger fish frying me...

 

I think it has PMD. It looks to have been pinched somehow.

 

DEFDAM.. Definitely Damaged!

 

I can understand that, being a penny-pincher myself.

(I got a million of 'em!)

 

Haha sometimes the wire cutters are just sitting there and you have to see what would happen!
I wonder if it could be dated using die characteristics.

 

I guess. I've seen countless coins that some !#@$% spent considerable effort gouging away at the bust. Maybe he hated that president, who knows. I dread the day I find a 1955 DDO (or equivalent) that's gouged to hell.

The thing is, those depressing depressions look like they were made with some round object with an ACME thread. It's better seen with the eye, but can be "sorta" seen in the images (I tried to use different angles to give a better look into the interior).

The stories this coin could tell... when I have a coin of that age I always wonder if it was carried in the pocket of some poor soul in the trenches of WWI, or the battles of WWII (or both), and then there was the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and on and on and on.

[Edit: Maybe the enemy was coming over the hill, and just then the squad's machinegun jammed, and someone saved the day by sticking this coin in between two threaded components that were binding. How's that for creating writing? <g>]

And, of course, I always wonder if maybe my father had it with him during the war. Slim odds for certain, but still...