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Message:: [QUOTE="Hookman, post: 7730276, member: 99642"]Could be. I would say a "hit" is different than a "stab". I have not examined the said coin in person and so have no actual first hand knowledge of the circumstances of the damage.From my experiences of having stabbed a multitude of various things, when you stab something, with say, a hunting knife, the point goes in and, as it goes downward and deeper, it creates a vertical entrance into the stabbed item. It also spreads, in this case the metal, apart as it goes deeper.That is what it looks like to me. It appears it was stabbed, with the knife having entered the coin and spread the metal apart. It does not look like a "hit".That is my opinion....that you solicited....and I provided.  Nothing more. Take a large sharp knife and stab down wards into either a piece of silver or a block of wood. You will get a similar "wound". The "wound" will be smaller in the silver and larger in the wood, but, I believe, the wounds will both be similar to the "wound" in your coin.[/QUOTE]