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1880 O Morgan Dollar With Chop Marks?

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 Posted 12/23/2007  12:02 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add mazov to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
One one my collegues in Europe run across this Morgan dollar. It looks like it has chop marks. Does anybody have an idea why those markings are on this coin?
Thanks for help.
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 Posted 12/23/2007  12:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add j_h_s to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
mazov; I posted the reverse picture of your coin on the Error Forum and asked about it. Check out that forum.

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I find the markings very suspicious...particularly the mint mark.
What I know of in the 1800's are:

1880 80/79
1880-CC
1880-CC 8/High 7
1880-CC 8/Low 7
1880/79-CC Reverse of 1878
1880-CC 8/7 Reverse of 78
1880-O
1880-O 80/79
1880-S
1880/79-S 80/79
1880/9-S overdate

The mint mark shown on that coin looks like a "V" and it wouldnt suprise me if that was a hand-hammered damage job to that coin, sad to say. If you do some comparing, the "3's" on the coin are not of of the 19th century style on the Morgans in that decade.



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 Posted 12/23/2007  12:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add amac44 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If it real not to say that is a fake. that the only one I have seen chop marks on. I have seen a few with the owners initials that they used them as a pocket piece.
chop marks on a Morgan that a new one for me. but maybe someone can help you with it
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I see no reason to believe the coin itself isn't genuine. The stamped marks were undoubtedly done by some idle American during the coin's lifetime; true chop marks used Chinese characters, not Western numbers.
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