I didn't look for the year mark, since I didn't know where to look. Thanks to this forum, I found out where to look for the year mark last night. I would have the thought this CZ was new, except for the scratch. The scratch is is only an 1/8 of an inch long and may be the thickness of a knife blade, but it did go through the black finish. You can see the shine of the metal through the scratch. They said that they had the case, both 16 round magazines, and everything else that would come with a new CZ.