2021p cent...Is this a lamination error?

Got this out of a box of 2021 cents from the bank. Is this some type of retained lamination error?

 

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Nice find.

 

Cool. That actually occurs sometime during the plating of the Zinc Planchet or the Upraising of the rim.. Most likely the latter.
Here is a similar example from my collection..

 

Very nice find! Be very careful to protect it. You don’t want that to come off.

 

Do you mean that rim, and that silvery part? @dollar, read about these laminations, they're not hard to understand. Something like this should never be confused with one. It's like asking if this were a doubled die. Really, I'm not lying.

 

Ok I see it,though that long thing on the side was like a hair or something similar.

 

Looks to me like this is a plating peel - hard to say whether it is an error or damage.

There has never been a known lamination on a zinc cent, only some examples of a TPG misidentifying a peel as a lamination.

 

Not related to lamination. What you have is a small shaving of the plating off the edge. To preserve it, put it in a 2x2 quarter flip, handling it very carefully. The more that “whisker” flexes, the greater the chance it will disconnect. Very fragile.
...jmho...Spark

 

It's a chewed up rim.

 

The copper plating.. It sort of... De-laminated away from the Zinc core

 

Have you ever wondered why they aren't called delamination errors? Seems more appropriate to me.

 

The first thing I would have done was pull it off. I guess that's why I can't have nice things...

 

Ah, I suppose I can swallow that. But in the sense everything is a plating issue to one degree or another with these cheap things...

 

Isn't it possible that it could slide back and forth in a quarter-sized 2x2? I realize that this would probably be the best option to preserve it, but what would be the best way to keep the 2x2 in a motionless state?

 

That silvery part is where the material above, had been.

 

Here is a 2004 P Jefferson with a similar condition. The start of a cud with a sliver peeling off.

 

Yeah, it sheared up. It's legitimate Mint damage, a legitimate Mint error.

 

At the end of that toothpick? That looks like debris, @Inspector43.

 

Appears to be a plating issue on a lousy Zincoln, but in my opinion, NAV, but maybe that's just me. GOM, grumpy old man. LOL