What the heck is this?

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The direction of the light has me thinking PMD on the body of E but the upper center trumpet almost looks like a strike through.

 

Looks like a hit -- striations parallel to the direction of the impact, displaced metal -- but it kinda looks like it hit a spot that had a planchet defect!

But you haven't enabled multiple choices, so no poll answer from me.

 

I'm going with pmd.

 

Okay, after @Dave Waterstraat's post, maybe it's "all of the above". I didn't see the strikethrough the first time, but now that he's called attention to it, I can definitely imagine that it's there. And the black crud could be debris.

 

PMD. Good evening, Sir's!

 

metal looks "smeared" so I have to say damage

 

Hmm this is a interesting one,I'm going with planchet defect in general.

 

Who want's to see the whole coin?

 

Oh no!!!not this game again.

 

I don't want the nun to smack my hand with the yard stick....

 

I thought I could wack someone but you guys are too smart.

 

with this pic alone i'd say damage

 

Looks like a deep shard of metal was sheared and then folded upwards.

 

This is a damaged part of a coin. What looks lie a planchet flaw into the surface at the far right of the gouge is where whatever hit the coin stopped. Nevertheless, anyone who noticed this is examining the image in detail - "good eye!" There is evidence of shear inside the concave part of the "hit" that flattened the letter.