At first I had to look up "notive." It sounds like it should be a word. Anyway, as for your coin, your explanation is very creative. But in a coin this heavily circulated, I'll appeal to Occam's Razor, which holds that the simplest explanation for something is usually the best one: It could also be that the last digit wore off. Such uneven wear may sound unlikely, but with three hundred billion cents out there, it's an almost certainty.
Furthermore, this would not be a "variety," varieties refer to types linked to a specific die condition. You are proposing an interference with the die contact, one that might repeat itself a few times but not many.
Finally, even if you're right, in an uncirculated specimen, this would not be a valuable error. With this level of wear, there would be little additional vlue.
Keep hunting!
