Pretty sure that's a trick the light is playing. Washington's are notorious for that due to the deeply struck, thick letters.
Got this one today, my photos aren't the best. Hey what is going on with @Skyman ? Has anyone heard from him in a while?
SkyMan is around, just going through a period of RELATIVE disinterest in coins. There are other things going on in my life. So, I'm only occasionally looking in on the forums.
A lot of this stuff makes it out of the mint but now days the counting houses are required to send it all back. A lot of it is caught as they try to roll it. It looks like a '96-D to me but others can't be positively ruled out.
Mont. That is awesome. My feeling, it must have made it's way out of the mint in a bag. I recall reading that if you turn mint bags inside out and check the seam, you can find certain types of errors. Fragments, and bowtie clips.