1979 Jefferson Nickel.
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This is the rev of the 1979 coin what do you think caused this?
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Probably PMD.
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Looks intentional smoothed as the raised edge is nearly untouched. But why is anyone's guess.
It has been milled out and smoothed. Notice the thin rims.
Weigh it and it should be less than 5g.
Maybe someone was going to make a magicians coin or try to pass off as an error.
No matter the reason, it is just damage.
Some legitimate errors can look like that -- the top half of two planchets struck together.
The picture isn't good enough to say whether that's the case here. The default answer is always that it was damaged after it left the mint. At least in this case it isn't definite that it was damaged.
As @Greenstang says, getting a weight could help narrow things down.
Whatever the cause or reason if you look hard enough the "figure" seems to resemble a cat. Notice the ears,one eye,slight nose, and neck. Looking head on. But then again maybe eyes playing tricks on me