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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pennyjoy, post: 1807068, member: 57767&quot;]Thanks for responding.&nbsp; Yes, that was exactly my question.&nbsp; I am very new to penny collecting, and this coin seemed to have damage that was the same color of the copper as say, one from the same year and there is of course damage that is newer, so the newer damage obviously wasn&#039;t from the mint, but the older damage looked to be original.&nbsp; So I guess my question is, could some of this have happened originally, because the way the damage that looks original is, it looks to me like so:&nbsp; if you have an oil painting and the paint was not dry and someone came along before it was dry and took the paintbrush and smeared some of the painting with the brush.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know that could happen to a coin, or how it could&nbsp; happen, so I was wondering if it happened at the mint because some of the damage looks to be the same color as the original color of the coin - and I was wondering how that could have happened if it wasn&#039;t original.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So it helps to know that it couldn&#039;t have happened at the mint.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t seem to find any clear information on this type of damage!&nbsp; So thanks for clearing it up for me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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