Hi thanks for stopping in to try and help. This is my first post here. I just received a bunch of coins that my grandpa saved up for me. I know the basics of coins collecting, if that. Anyhow two gold coins i have, one is a gold dollar type 1 1852, have bad damage. The other sides looks good though. I have no guess as to what could've caused the damage? Actually my only guess is that a little piece of metal got welded to the coins.