What happened to this penny?

Happy Saturday! I've been collecting for years mostly pennies, but I'm still not real sure what I'm doing so patience please as I learn... I came across this penny last night and I'm curious what could have happened to it, its a mess! Let me know what you think. Thanks!

 

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Sometimes you pick one up in a parking lot and it has been run over thousands of times and scraped against the asphalt.
This coin could have been damaged any number of ways, and by different things.

 

Yeah, it looks like it spent some time on a rough surface, being pounded by other rough surfaces. Maybe it did something very bad in a previous life.

Welcome to CoinTalk!

 

Welcome to the neighborhood, Chrissy!

Though we will never really know what caused this damage, @Michael K 's response is the most plausible. ~ Chris

 

Im just curious why you created this thread in the What's it Worth forum..

No matter how it happened it's just damaged.
Worth? 1 Cent

 

Looks like a parking lot find so go with Michaels response. Welcome to CT.

 

Rode hard and put away wet!

 

A quote from Ronnie Dunn?

 

no idea what it's from, just something I have heard

 

'Ol boy at the bar with the stagger in his step
Looks like he's been rode hard and put up wet
Heartache's on him like stink on a skunk
He's fighting off lonely, trying to drown it with a drunk

Let the cowboy rock, let the good times roll
This is where the hurt stops or where the whiskey flows
Let him drink every drop, go, go, go 'til he drops
Let the cowboy rock

Yeah, think he's still a little green
Y'all, he's fresh off the farm
Some pretty little thing put a whooping on his heart
He's walking to the left, leaning to the right
Talking to himself, putting up a fight

Let the cowboy rock, let the good times roll
This is where the hurt stops or where the whiskey flows
Let him drink every drop, go, go, go 'til he drops
Let the cowboy rock

He needs a long rope
Boys, cut him some slack
Every now and then you gotta act like that

Let the cowboy rock, let the good times roll
This is where the hurt stops or where the whiskey flows
Let him drink every drop, go, go, go 'til he drops
Let the cowboy rock

Let him drink every drop, go, go, go 'til he drops
Let the cowboy rock @Kentucky "Let the Cowboy Rock".

 

No matter how much damage is done how could the lettering be completely moved to center of coin? I've come across damaged coins. Non who's letters decided to completely relocate them selves. Just saying

 

You are just seeing damage that looks like letters. It’s all damage, no letters have moved to the center of the coin.

 

This. Our brains are primed to recognize familiar patterns, and we can spot them even in random noise. (So can computer-based pattern recognition tools.)

 

I am in my 70s and I remember, as a teenager, my dad saying this about some of the working girls downtown.

 

Road kill penny.

 

By the color it looks possibly fire damaged.

 

On the road too long. I pick up lots of these along the roadside when I ride my bicycle. Nickels, dimes, quarters, too. Once in a while a presidential dollar or even euro coins. I have a jar full of them. Why? I don't know.

 

that's odd.

I see a bunch of flowers, saxophones and birds. No letters nor numbers except where they should be. Are you sure you see moved lettering and not flowers & birds?

 

Road rage

 

Road Rash