Fake penny? Damaged penny?
lovealways343
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It’s smaller than a regular penny. Lighter too. It’s almost like it was painted and it chipped off. It so flat, are coins not stamped anymore? Idk. I don’t know anything about all of this. 
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It looks to as if some rubbed against a ruff surface
thus loosing the stamped or raised part of the coin.
If its cool to you, save it for luck.
You went this far right?
Probably caught in a washing machine or other machine. Edges and surfaces ground away. Lots of exposed zinc.
Hard to tell blurry pics. Edges do look filed/ground down. Looks like it was glued to paper-something and then ripped off. Or it was filed/sanded down.
Probably NOT worth one cent; unless you get a cashier not paying attention.
Modern cents have a zinc core with thin layer of copper on the outside. Once the zinc is exposed it will corrode quickly.
The copper plating was removed with something abrasive like sandpaper and the zinc core is exposed. It's a damaged coin, not an error
I believe this is most likely. Washing machine/dryer coin. It is post-mint damage.