It's been de-plated. The normal cent of this date is copper-plated on a zinc planchet. Someone has removed the copper plated, after the coin was in circulation. Not an error coin, sorry to say.
I'd play quite a bit over that for a nice one with less obvious wear. If it was a quarter, I'd "play with him and hug him and squeeze him, and call him George".
Now Kurt, she's new. She hasn't had time to learn about your unique brand of humor... leave the fresh meat alone... don't you have some taxpayers to torture? @Jessica Botello as you're learning most of what you see in well circulated coins is just damage from circulation. What's called PMD for post mint damage and also PSD for post strike damage. The most common things you're going to see are circular marks on the coin that come from the rolling machine, random hits and plating anomalies on 1982 and later Lincoln cents. The best site in the world to read up on errors is http://error-ref.com. Most minor errors are not valuable. It's the kind of thing you do for fun... Also in case nobody's mentioned it you do not have to put a poll in every post. Honestly the ones you posted are silly because they don't give you any information. Keep looking, keep asking questions, ignore Kurt (he's mostly harmless in an annoying little brother who thinks putting a dead mouse in your shoe is funny kind of way) and have fun!
I don't. But I have one too. And living in the city, it was more dead roaches and spiders, but same concept. And the bat flew in all by itself, and I was away at school anyway....
