Just How Rare Are Morgans With Chop Marks

I would expect Morgans with actual chopmarks to be rather scarce to rare. The large silver coins, 8 reales, Trade dollars, Seated dollars etc circulated in China based on the weight of the silver, not on a tale basis, so by the mid to late 1880's the Morgan dollars would have passed in China at around 50 cents apiece. If you could spend them in China for 50 cents or bring them home and spend them for a dollar which would you do? That was why the Trade dollars started coming back to the US from China, until 1876 they could be spent here for a dollar, but their trade value as silver in China had dropped to about 80 cents.

As Condor101 notes it does not make any sense for a Morgan to be used in trade with China. In 1878 a US importer could exchange raw silver at the mint for Trade dollars at around 80 cents on the dollar or buy Trade dollars at melt value. Why would the importer pay $1 for a Morgan at less weight for a coin that Chinese did not want. The use of the Trade dollar with China came to an end by 1881, and there are no official US records of Trade dollars being returned to the US from China after 1881.

I've never seen one before.