1964 Nickel Garage job or error ?

Hi all , from studying other errors this 1964 nickel has what appears to be a strike trough on the reverse with nail ? I was thinking it might be a fantasy coin. Could someone please tell me what I have here and if I should get it encapsulated ?

 

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It's a genuine coin and that's post-mint damage. I can make one of those, just give me a hammer and a small chisel. Why would anyone do that to a coin? Why does the Sun go on shining? Why does the Sea rush to shore?

 

Plus its been though a counting or rolling machine as the mess on the obv. Shows. .

 

Yes that’s a nickel.
No it’s not worth grading.
What you see is PMD.
It was damage after it left the mint.
The damage may have occurred in a garage or a basement or anywhere else. Only the person that damaged that poor coin knows for sure.

 

I think I'd have to agree that it is PMD, but I'm more interested in the E in STATES than the mark above it.

 

It sure looks like a gouge or chisel mark, but... where did the metal go? I don't see the raised margin(s) I'd expect from a hit that deep.

 

Don't they know it's the end of the world

 

I will attach a close up of the E"

 

Ahh yes I see, it would have had some sort of edge area to that valley !

 

That's downright creepy, and I'm having trouble imagining how it could've happened at the Mint.

 

With a very very tiny probe, no doubt.

 

Looks like PMD also, with those close-up photos.

 

It's all damage