The ripples caught my eye. I've seen finger gouges around the N in one on wheats just not in this area.
Are you kidding? It's clearly an off-center, temporally-displaced overstrike, where the host coin was a Lincoln Memorial cent! "Was"? "Would have going to be"? Verb tenses get so confusing when time travel is involved...
1944S,, I've seen a couple like this attributed to feeder fingers. you can search 1944-S lincoln cent feeder finger, and see what pops up, some worse than yours, some just like yours.
