A little reading and research into creation of dies and the minting process is in order. If it was possible for it to be a number wouldn't it be reasonable to expect it would at least be the same font and size? And if it were part of the die, where are the thousands of other coins that would have been struck with said die?
We are going to need much better pictures than these to see what happening, also we'd need the reverse to identify the mint of manufacture. So far all we know it's a 1922 and bad lighting. It's likely some sort of after minting damage just because nobody's identified a VAM like this over the last 100 years though, that's just being realistic.
It is PMD! The coin took a hit on the rim by something. Who knows what! It isn't even the same size as the font used for the date.
While it is an interesting anomaly, I rather am of the opinion that once you put any coin under this level of magnification, you can see most anything you want to see.
Randy is right, an interesting anomaly nothing more. The striation also looks like a anomaly in my opinion. Good luck
A counter clash can produce a repetition of devices from the same side. Also, Chinese counterfeits are a great source of odd "errors and varieties". I have some Peace dollars with a strong obverse "clash".
I don't think so. The portion of the 2nd 9 in the field, and the 2 on the rim - both are raised metal, and that can't happen from post mint damage. The raised metal had to occur during the strike. No, I think what we're looking at here is a counterfeit coin deliberately minted this way so as to fool some collector into buying it.
to me it looks like a sideways D, but not the GoD D, or the mintmark D. just some random D from who knows where it came from.
