There is a raised metal ring where the words should be

There is a raised metal ring on the reverse where the lettering should be. Like it's melted together. The obverse is a little bit concave in the same ring area. Is this a mint error or did someone alter it?

 

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This pic is a little more clear

 

This pic is a little more clear

 

Damaged not an error you have a total of 10 cents.

 

DEFDAM - Definitely Damaged
Not a mint error of any kind.

 

I give it a " 10" For Creativeness !!

 

Haha. Can I quote you on that if I sell it eBay? Lol. Did someone solder the words together or something?

 

Thanks for the real story, guys

 

I've got one more guys, please. It's missing part of the 7.

 

Almost looks like someone used a can opener on it. The gripping wheel left the marks on one side with no marks on the other, like an electric can opener might do.

 

The date is worn on your other dime, so considered PMD, post mint damage, having been done after it left the mint.

 

People do strange things to coins.

 

Thanks

 

The first one though: it might be hard to tell from my poor quality photo but that ring IS raised higher than the parts of the coin with no image higher than the "field", it's called right? If it was something like a can opener, like you say, in order to destroy the letters like that, wouldn't the ring be level with the field then? And the fact that the edges of the ring look the way they do, and slope slightly downward makes it look like the letters are somehow melded together. That's why I was wondering if someone soldered the letters into a ring. But if that were the case, they would have had to add solder, and it really doesn't look like any foreign metal was added. It looks like the original coins top metal layer. And if someone had melted the letters together, would that have taken so much heat that the reverse would be more affected?

 

Likely someone in a shop used some sort of tool on it. Just messing around. I don’t see how it could have happened in the minting process anyway.

 

Okay, I'll settle for that, thanks guys