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2 more Chopmarked coins from the recent Stephen Album auction

OGDanOGDan Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 8, 2019 11:30AM in World & Ancient Coins Forum

For whatever reason, it’s tough to find Chopmarked 8 Reales from the Alamo mint. I would have thought the location would have led to lots of exports to China, but it seems not. Maybe lower mintages? The coin below has a mintage under 1 million. the surfaces are flashy and prooflike, and I love the single reverse chop which doesn’t mutilate the coin too bad.

The next one is a Peru Sol which are somewhat common with Chopmarks, but I’ve had a dilly of a time finding a nice one. This one is nice, and replaces the ex-jewelry example I posted here a while back. I like these because of the obvious inspiration from the US trade dollar.

Hope you enjoy them.

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  • EVillageProwlerEVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OMG, @OriginalDan, they look very nice!!! Congrats!

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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wonderful coins .

    I had to look really hard to find the chopmark on the one sol!

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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,139 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You have a great collection forming!

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,217 ✭✭✭✭✭

    terrific coins...

    I believe a variation of the Sole design similar to the 1894 you posted predates the US Trade Dollar

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  • OGDanOGDan Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coinkat said:
    terrific coins...

    I believe a variation of the Sole design similar to the 1894 you posted predates the US Trade Dollar

    Whoops, your absolutely right. I was looking at my notes for this KM number (196.26) but this design originated in 1864. Maybe the coin actually drew inspiration from the seated Liberty series, with the shield, pole and phyrgian cap? (and that design drew inspiration from much earlier in Greece/Rome)

  • ChopmarkedTradesChopmarkedTrades Posts: 524 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I thought the Sol looked nice in the auction photos; looks great here!

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,217 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And let's not forget the influence of seated Britannia. London basically was the financial Capitol of Western civilization well into the 20th century

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  • WCCWCC Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OriginalDan said:

    @coinkat said:
    terrific coins...

    I believe a variation of the Sole design similar to the 1894 you posted predates the US Trade Dollar

    Whoops, your absolutely right. I was looking at my notes for this KM number (196.26) but this design originated in 1864. Maybe the coin actually drew inspiration from the seated Liberty series, with the shield, pole and phyrgian cap? (and that design drew inspiration from much earlier in Greece/Rome)

    Weren't at least some of these coins struck in Philadelphia? I have a 1923 somewhere that I recall as such.

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