The results of assessing the marks on a coin and their affect on its grade are extremely variable. However, you cannot change what you see. You can disguise it, alter it or play fanciful “what-if” games, but it is what it is and you had better know what you are looking at.
Very few vintage, non-bullion, Mint State coins exist without something that can be considered as a post-mint defect. Defects
