Are There Chop Marks On Other Silver Besides Trade Dollars?

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chafemasterj Pillar of the Community United States 6514 Posts	Posted 12/16/2019 11:59 am I've noticed on ebay that there are other denominations of silver coinage that have stamps on them that look like a starish type chop mark that I'm familiar with. Just curious if anyone knows if it's a possibility. I'll search for an example and post if I find one. This is similar but not quite: 2F143472632382 Here is the chop mark on the Trade dollar in my 7070: Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 Edited by chafemasterj 12/16/2019 12:03 pm Report this Post to the Staff

kookoox10 Pillar of the Community United States 1054 Posts	Posted 12/16/2019 12:09 pm Great question! You will find them on old Spanish and Peruvian reales coins and on the occasional Great Britain Trade dollar. Any large coin that traded in the orient can be found with the chop marks. Report this Post to the Staff
Slider23 Pillar of the Community United States 4468 Posts	Posted 12/16/2019 12:23 pm For US coins with chop marks the Seated Liberty half dollar can be found and there are some Seated Liberty dollars. Edited by Slider23 12/16/2019 12:24 pm Report this Post to the Staff
basebal21 Bedrock of the Community 13014 Posts	Posted 12/16/2019 4:13 pm You can sometimes find other series with them though for US coins Trade dollars are by far the most common. Just be aware that many of the other series and even with Trade dollars the chops are fake, they're also a great way to conceal things that are incorrect on a fake coin Report this Post to the Staff
ExoGuy Pillar of the Community United States 4415 Posts	Posted 12/17/2019 08:34 am I agree .... Good question. In all my years of hunting for merchant counterstamps, I don't recall seeing USA coins, other than Trade dollars and an occasional Morgan dollar, that had oriental chopmarks. My understanding of "chopmarked" coins has long been that this term refers specifically to world (USA included) coins that circulated in the orient and were stamped by merchants there. Their chopmark labeled the coin good silver, in effect. I have a coin dealer friend who's married to a Chinese lady. A few months ago, I took one of my few chopmarked Trade dollars to a show so that she might be able to enlighten me about the Chinese characters. She studied the marks intently, telling me that they represented different family names. She noted one, apparent Japanese chopmark. She was only able to generalize about the marks, being unable to answer any who, what, when or why questions. Surprisingly, to me, she, wife of a coin dealer, was unaware of this practice of chopmarking coins. Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 12/17/2019 10:57 am There are chopmarks on other coins besides Mexican Pesos, Spanish 8 Reales and Trade dollars, but they are much scarcer Report this Post to the Staff
Slider23 Pillar of the Community United States 4468 Posts	Posted 12/17/2019 11:17 am Quote: I don't recall seeing USA coins, other than Trade dollars and an occasional Morgan dollar, that had oriental chopmarks. Below is a Seated Liberty half dollar for sale with a chop mark. There are currently about 5 or 6 SLHD listed on ebay for sale with chop marks. Frank Rose rarity list has the Seated Liberty half dollar with chop mark at 100 to 500 examples. The few Seated Liberty dollar and Morgans that have chop marks most likely were mixed in with the Trade dollars Report this Post to the Staff
ExoGuy Pillar of the Community United States 4415 Posts	Posted 12/17/2019 1:39 pm The chopmarked US coins are generally not ones that would capture my attention; this, as the marks are "Greek" to me. Seriously, I've never read about any specific meaning being attached to these pieces. Can any specific history be attached to the chopmark on the 1856 half .... who, what, when, where, why? The mark, itself, is distinct. Report this Post to the Staff
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