Misaligned Die?

Is this a misaligned die?

 

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Misaligned die strike and the mintmark took a hit from something causing damage

 

Please post an image of the reverse.

 

Here you go.

 

There's actually a tiny, tiny bit of it showing on the reverse on that side of the coin, too.

 

What you have here is a collar clash on the obverse, which caused a MAD ....

 

There are two rims. One on the smaller planchet when the cut blank went through the upsetting mill and formed it. One formed through the gutters in the dies that struck the planchet and formed the coin. When everything is perfectly aligned the planchet rim is swallowed-up by the die rim and the appearance is the one rim. This situation, everything wasn't perfectly aligned. Here's the evidence of the slight misalignment on the reverse, same side of the coin, just underneath the obverse separation. Note the faint dark line between the two rims running down the edge and then separating ever so slightly at the bottom-half. There's the error, in its detail...

 

Is this worth sending to the graders?

 

No.

 

OP, is this what the obverse looks like ?
Of course, yours is a later die state .