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Hello I found an 1791 8R S Carlos with an interesting chop mark it looks like a pineapple. However, I am assuming its a Chinese Assayer. Any help would be grateful. Its been a lot of fun researching this coin but I keeieoming up empty on this one.

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Welcome to Coin Community, dmaskman. Turn your researching focus to the Caribbean, possibly Haiti in particular. You might find this to be even more of an official stamp than just a chopmark.
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Brilliant Thanks!
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The following excerpt is from an auction catalog from Dix Noonan Webb in regards to a large collection of West Indies countermarked coins:

The series of pierced dollars now attributed to Haiti have previously been attributed to several West Indian islands. The countermark has been called a pineapple and attributed to Jamaica and later Barbados; it has also been called a crab and attributed to Vieques, an island just off the south -east coast of Puerto Rico. The pierced dollars uncountermarked have previously been attributed to St. Kitts. Research by F. Carl Braun, ‘A Triple Numismatic Enigma of the Nineteenth -Century Caribbean: Haiti, Barbados, St Kitts, or Vieques?', published by the American Numismatic Society as part of the Coinage of the Americas Conference series, properly attributes these coins to Haiti and identifies the countermark as a palm tree (Hispaniola Wine Palm, Pseudophoenix vinifera) a species indigenous only to the island of Hispaniola (Haiti occupying the western third of the island and the Dominican Republic the eastern two thirds).
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