1991 Bermuda One Cent

Fun find. That's the Raphael Maklouf effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, used on British and some Commonwealth coins from 1985 until about 1998.

Always cool to find these while searching US rolls. I've come across three or four.

The coin is made from the same alloys as US cents: copper-plated zinc. So the streaks and bubbles are the same as what you see on early Zincolns: gas bubbles forming and expanding underneath the copper plating.

Pigs on coins from Bermuda are of course nothing new; the earliest British colonial coinage in the New World was made for Bermuda in 1615, then known as the "Sommer Islands". These coins (which you will find listed in the Red Book) are known as "Hogge Money" because of the prominent pigs on the obverse. So when new dollar-based coinage was designed for Bermuda in 1970, to replace the pound sterling which had been circulating there, a pig was the obvious choice for the cent.