I commend you on your powers of observation but it's nothing at all. Mint marks were punched in by hand in 1971 from a drawing of "about" where it should be.
A nice variety to look for would be a re-punched mint mark (RPM). Some times they had to punch the mint marks several times and on the second or third try the punch would not line up with the last tap of the punch and so it looks doubled or even tripled. Sometimes with D mint marks the repunch was so close that all that showed was an extended tip on one the ends of the D. That was called a "hang-nail."