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Looks like shmutz

 

Looks like part of the copper plating pealed off. Probably due to environmental damage or plating bubbles.

 

Cant have plating bubbles on a 1973 cent.

 

It is missing material there but the coin is all same color

 

It's hard to tell on your picture. It's a bit grainy. If the material is missing, it could be a detached lamination.

 

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I'm inclined toward "splashed with something corrosive", but it's a bit hard to tell from a photo of a screen showing a photo of a coin...

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Ok.. Copper plated zinc cents started in 1982
It's not any kind of error.. Just corrosion of some sort.

 

Looks like it was plated over the indentation could it have been a defect in the planchet?

 

How about you take a better picture.

 

looks like acid of some sort

 

Hope this is better pic

 

My vote is strike through or detached lamination. Prolly strike through.

 

Corrosion or a stain on a copper cent.

 

Second photo does make it look more like a Struck Through.
The ghosting of the 19 remind me of a unretained lamination.
More photos with light at different angles may help with a correct answer.

 

Much better picture..
Planchet error.. Lamination

 

Heres is another example, 1945 S

 

What a difference a photo can make!

Nice find, @Was511!