There's nothing wrong. The surface isn't smooth, copper is hydrophilic, and that's a trivial amount of water. What difference does it make? Are you looking for reasons to return it?

When I was researching copper sinks I read some things that said that poor quality sinks pooled water. They may have just been scare tactics to make people buy their sinks. That's why I asked on here. It doesn't seem like it should matter that much.

That isn't really what I'd consider a pooling of water. Pooling would involve a larger volume of water and would be a result of a bottom where some portion of it was slightly lower than the drain, and you would have a small puddle that was located away from the drain. That looks like a high-quality, hand-hammered sink that has a few drops of water centered around the drain, which would not be unusual for that or many other sinks. If you are only concerned because of what you read in your research, I think you shouldn't worry. It looks like a great sink to me.

Okay, thanks! It is a bit more than a few drops. They are small puddles, but shouldn't really matter. Do you happen to have a recommendation of a drain to use with it?

Any name brand drain with a copper finish will be fine as the inset appears adequately wide and deep enough to prevent additional water retention. I would, however, go with the pop-up type rater than the kind that involves a rod that projects through a hole in either the sink rim or the surrounding countertop.

I'm not really familiar with ones with a rod. Is this style one to avoid? https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0028SSDSI/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_7?smid=A17LHUV1GIDMW3&psc=1

As long as the rim of the drain doesn't sit higher than the bottom of the sink, that could work. However, if you ever want to have water in the sink, that design doesn't appear to have any way to allow that. When I mentioned a pop-up drain, this is what I meant:

https://www.amazon.com/Sinkology-TP01-AG-Popup-Drain-Copper/dp/B07CL75M3R/ref=sr_1_15?keywords=copper+drain&qid=1578351248&sr=8-15

It's spring-loaded: you push down on it to close the drain and push down on it again to have it pop up and open. If you only want an open drain and never intend to fill the sink with water, then the type you linked to should work.

Hit it with some Stainless Steel Magic. That water will slide away.

Great. Thank you both.

With the weight of the drain piping, depending on the sink guage, it may "pop" down and area will disappear.

I have a copper sink in my powder room. The drain is from Premiere Copper. Most of the copper drains sold are just coated copper and not pure copper. Since the sink in my powder room gets only minimal use, that was fine but for the copper sink in my kitchen, I got a drain that is 100% copper so I don't have to worry about the plating wearing off.

I was told that since the sink in the powder room doesn't have an overflow hole, I should NOT get the kind of drain that allows the sink to be filled. My master bathroom sink has an overflow hole and so does have the kind of drain apparatus that can be used to plug and fill the sink. When it was installed, I asked why the drain in the powder room didn't really "do" anything and was told that this was deliberately done because of the lack of the overflow hole.

@Helen, I was just about to ask about that. This sink does not have an overflow and I have a toddler who will be a young kid before I know it and may close the drain by accident.

@Phoebe - You definitely don't want a drain that allows the sink to be filled. When I first looked at the sink I thought they had not connected something :-) because I had never had a bathroom sink without the overflow hole. But I was assured that it was deliberate.

Not that I would ever need to fill the sink but you can always get one of those flat rubber/silicone things and fill it up.

I'm not a plumber so I don't know the technical terms for these but I assume you know what I am describing :-)