1995 LMC Missing Copper Plate?

Another fun day in the lab. Molten splash? Evidence of a wire welder?

That snow is pretty cool, the un-cameo from the underverse :)

Not sure what I'm seeing looking at the rim...weird.

I have a very similar coin but mine is a 1995 D, has the same rim and railroad looking overlaps as yours. Odd that your coin and mine are both 95's though. Here's the thread about it, but as a comment, my final thoughts on my coin were that someone tried to alter it to encase it in something like a bezel or loops of metal to use as a pendant or something. Who knows why whoever did it, did it, but me finding one here in Canada, and you (whereever) is interesting. Mine probably was last received by my neighbor in Toronto and he just tossed it in his penny jar.

https://goccf.com/t/72240

By the way, your 1995 striated/raised lines and some of those accumulated raised metal lumpy lookings running with the lines is the same looks that I see on a lot of our newer Canadian cents. Striations and buildups lumps of metal. Is the striations from die polishing I wonder?

I thought the excess looked like wire welding splash. Perhaps some arcing? Looks burnt at the FG.

A lightning strike would not only vaporize the entire cent, but everything around it as well. I have seen three foot diameter craters, eighteen inches deep blown in creek beds (six inch river rocks, gravel, and sand) from a lightning storm in northern CA (we had over 20 strikes within 300 feet of our campsite). I once helped reapir an EBS radio that had been struck and over 100 feet of copper wire from the antenna to the transmitter was nowhere to be found. a coin lying on the ground well away from the point of entry might get some stray current that could cause damage but I don't think it would look like this cent (too "clean").

So sounds like your coin isn't plated either then if its rough and no luster. Never got plated or someone removed it. Curiouser. Was there some special science project in 1995 messing with the newest pennies minted to experiment I wonder, then released, like a message in a bottle and then watched out for any news about any being found? The great mystery of the Penny MIA Plating.