Interesting cent error

Could this be a grease error?? Is it common? Thanks in advance for any help!

 

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Lamination.

 

Actually not a lamination.
That is simply the bubbles made from the plating process.
Very common, no added value.

 

treashunt is right, unfortunately there's more and more of this happening...............good ol' quality control!

grizz

 

That's pretty common with the zinc cents, but haven't seen that many bubbles on one like that before though. Might have a little value, but I'd hold on to it. Still neat. Nice find BTW. :thumb:

Phoenix

 

Never mind.

 

so the consensus is that this is an error, but there is no noticeable collector demand for it.

 

Pretty much. I have a 1993 proof that looks more like an orange peel in texture than a proper coin.

 

I've seen this most of pennies from the 1980s. It's so bad, many of them actually have zinc ON the surface. ouch.

 

I just found a penny like the OP's this week. It looks like the penny has severe acne over the entire obverse (much worse than the OP's).