With a coin in such a condition, it is usually safe to assume anomalies are the result of damage, which appears to be the case here. This isn't foolproof, of course, but more often than not the obvious answer turns out to be the correct one too.
It might have been a weakly struck coin or even a struck-through grease, but after the road rage incident, yeah, call it a cent and count yourself lucky.
Greased die, sadly the coin looks like in fell in a garbage disposal or a blender, maybe under an 18 wheeler too, maybe even all of the above! Even if it were not damaged it would still not be worth much, greased dies to not bring much premium, if any, anyways. Still, I think it is cool.
Well some grease dies do bring good money I sold one for around $80 it was a 1922 the whole obverse side was barely visible but it you could still make out the date under good light.
I had one like that I found in change, it was a zinc cent and was almost a blank copper looking disk with extremely faded images of lincoln in it. Sadly, I lost it somewhere in my house 30 minutes after finding it.
