1900 o morgan with raised V on cheek

I have a 1900-o morgan dollar with a raised V on the cheek. Not sure what is going on. Possible error?

 

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Just a knife scratch. The cut raised the metal on one side of the blade.
Not an error.

 

I don't see any impression. Only raised?

 

Circulation flattens it back out and hides the cut.

 

Crazy. It looks so clean

 

The more I look at it , it is really clean and perfect

 

DEFDAM - Definitely Damaged.

 

Sorry but it's just damage. @TheFinn and @ldhair provided an accurate explanation.

A cut from a sharp object can displace metal that will be raised. A little circulation will push down the displaced metal, resulting in what you see.

One more point, Morgan dollars have been extensively studied for decades. The site VAMworld has an extensive list of all of the die pairs known to have struck Morgan and Peace dollars. Go there and you'll see that no die with an inverted V on the cheek exists

 

I understand, it's just so straight and square to make sense. I feel it would have bent left or right of the cut

 

Jab a stick into the beach and write your name. Come back after the tide has rolled in and back out and you will likely see your name raised in the sand. Same principal.

 

It's actually an upside down V.. The Eleventh Greek letter Lambda for the letter L

 

Take a ruler and a razor blade and you can make a perfect V. Put the coin in your pocket with keys and change and carry it around for a while. The cut will flatten and look like the coin you posted.
No way the coin came from the mint looking like this. Not possible.

 

It's damaged. The raised metal is from the cut that was made into the coin.

 

Can you all check out my post about the 1943 steel penny with filled R, rpm, and die crack in the wheat ear. Thanks for info on the Morgan dollar.

 

I think the term is "Cleaned".