eBay cent struck through *ick*...

1972 D Lincoln Memorial Cent Obverse Struck Thru Error Coin - Error - 1c

Maybe this is just me failing a Rorschach test, but this looks to me for all the world like it was struck through a tiny roach, complete with antennae.

The scale is wrong, and I know an actual bug wouldn't be, ahem, durable enough to produce a strikethrough like this -- but I can't unsee it now.

 

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I cant even tell the difference.

 

I think it's just glue

 

It looks like it is dented in vs puffed out.

 

If it was a strike though, wouldn't the rim, field and lincoln coat in the area of the strike though be missing ....

 

Here's one, see how the bust is missing .

 

I think I get what you mean.

 

Here's a good article, wish there was images .
http://www.error-ref.com/struckthrougherrors/

 

Looks like a detached lamination to me. Mismatched die pair; the reverse looks rather heavily ghosted and polished (in an attempt to level the fields?) while the obverse seems pretty new, with the letter tips in IGWT nice and sharp.