Partially plated cent?

This 1988 D looks like it may have not taken all of the copper plating! What are your thoughts?

 

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Interesting, reminds me of spray paint on a wall. Looks unique

 

Good question and it does appear to me that plating is missing without the use of some sort of chemical. @paddyman98 @Rick Stachowski @Fred Weinberg

 

I'd go with strange toning

 

looks like spray paint to me too because on the backside it looks like it smooths out the surface in areas of heavier concentration. Although Split Plating around many of the outer edge letters.

 

Pretty sure this is not paint when looking at this closer. I'm 98.7 % sure anyways!

 

It's a 1988 so that makes it a super thin copper plated Zinc core cent.
Maybe the electrostatically plated copper was too thin in places. But I've never seen one to know what one actually looks like to know.

 

Looks legit to me - although normally
you see partial copper/partial zinc showing
on some, this appears to be 'light copper
plating' -

 

I really like @mikediamond article in Coin World on these! https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-c...n-the-error-collectors-clearinghouse.all.html

 

Agreed, I don't think it's spray paint, just reminded me of it the way it looks

 

The problem here, is there a way to remove areas of plating, via solution or whatever, to make it look this way? And if that's possible, how can you tell the difference between missing partial plating and PMD?

 

Great question and this is why I like Mike Diamonds article.