2006 Nickel P - Flat Face

[IPGOMES130]

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Is this an error, variety or PMD?

[occnumis2021]

looks like pmd. probably squeezed between something like leather and then a flat object on the face so the reverse was left pristine.

[MintErrors]

That area on the coin is the deepest part of the die. The working dies have the coin images sunk into the dies. This way the images are raised on the coins. This means the deepest part of the coin was only affected if it was die related.

Or, after it leaves the mint, the highest part of the die is damaged for some unknown reason or how it was done.

There is literally no way this could have been done in the mint. Some one may decided to start a hobo nickel, and did not like the way it was coming out, or simply, like Occ said, used pressure to created the look.... or a sander. Circulated coins, they are more prone to become garage coins than an actual bonefide error. Literally thousands of ways to jack up coins once they go into circulation...