If you know so much about the minting process, then why do you come here for opinions? Why don't you just submit it to one of the major grading services for authentication and then sell it for big bucks? By the way, you can change the moniker "New Member" beneath your username whenever you feel like it. That's just one other thing you apparently don't know. Have a nice day!
You guys just wrote it off like I knew you would. No one is looking closer at the pictures you all are going off predetermined ideas. I get it it’s impossible but pmd is not the answer either, I wish I could just send it to you all in the mail to look at
Explain please how this could have happened during the minting process. Simply put, it can't. So Post Mint Damage
PMD plain and simple. Their is nothing raised on that cent. If you think it is then you need help and not just glasses. That was in a vise and squezzed more than once.
Your coin is PMD, sorry. The cent is larger than a regular cent because it's been squeezed and enlarged. Something to consider, every single person that has opined has told you that this coin is damaged. Which is more likely: 1. That EVERY single person here is wrong. 2. That maybe it's just PMD. Keep in mind that you're still new to this, and some of us have been at this for years. If you go back far enough, you'll see similar posts of mine, where I ask for people to look at what are clearly non-error coins. Remember back in 2019 when you thought incuse doubling was a doubled die? Here's a link: I think @desertgem gave you some really sage advice:
You definitely need help, because this is a vice job. PMD Next we will see it on etsy with a 50,000 buy it now rare eroor.