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How common are Chopmarks on Seated Liberty Half dollars?

TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I have several Trade Dollars with chopmarks,but have never seen any other series with chopmarks.I like this 1858-S Half.

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  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    Frank Rose estimated there to be 100 to 500 chopmarked seated halves. I just don't buy the coin you have listed as chopped, it looks like damage to me.

    I am just a novice and would love to here other more informed opinions on the subject coin.
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  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't know how many there are but that coin is bichen kewl Dave!!! image


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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Frank Rose estimated there to be 100 to 500 chopmarked seated halves. I just don't buy the coin you have listed as chopped, it looks like damage to me.

    I am just a novice and would love to here other more informed opinions on the subject coin. >>



    Anacs did NET grade this example as AU Details do to the damage.

    Chopmarks although historic IMHO should all be in Genuine Only holders.
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  • LancastercoinLancastercoin Posts: 251
    There are tons of "other series" with chops, basically all dollar-size silver coins from Spanish colonies or China's neighbors. Half dollar (4 real) size coins aren't unknown, though. This "332" looks more like graffiti or maybe a merchant counterstamp than regular Chinese/SE Asian authenticating chops. The location also seems very deliberately placed, unlike normal chops.
  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,937 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The marks might be of eastern style, but their placement and distribution makes me think they were put there with intention other than what authentic chop marks were used for.
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  • rooksmithrooksmith Posts: 993 ✭✭✭✭
    awsome and cool. Though the whole concept of "authenticity" aforementioned seems to taint it.
    How can you certify such a specimen.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is the strangest chop I have ever seen.... and, it is not in Rose's book (agreed, the book does not cover all chop marks). No doubt there is a story there, which we will likely never know. I would be hesitant to deem it an authentic chop. Cheers, RickO
  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>That is the strangest chop I have ever seen >>



    It is three separate chops of, from top to bottom, the Chinese characters for 3, 3 and 2.

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  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    the coin looks off to me.
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