This one took a ride on a boat
MilkmanDan
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Just landed this one for my chopmarked type set. With some of the more "common" coins I go for examples by type and mint, so for U.S. Half dollars which are fairly available from S.F., it is neat to see one from New Orleans. Maybe the second or third coin from the New Orleans mint I've ever seen with Chinese chopmarks.
Do we have any experts on 19th century shipping routes in the house? I'd love some help guessing which route this coin would have taken to get over to China. Would it more likely have gone around the horn to California, and then east? Or possibly to Europe first, then hitched a ride on one of the various trading company ships? I suppose it could have also traveled by land to one of the coasts before shipping out. Fun to dream about where it has been...it's what draws me to these coins.
P.S. it's a bummer that one of the chopmarks is directly over the reverse mint mark, but whatcha gonna do.
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It could have traveled partly by railroad if it left New Orleans in 1869 or later.
Since it doesn't have much wear, it would have to have been sitting in a bank vault or something for awhile for this to be the case.
Very cool Dan! I like to think it was carried across the Panama Isthmus, then on a boat to CA. (not a Mississippi riverboat though, flat bottoms not too seaworthy, LOL) and thence to the Orient.
Very cool coin, nice pick-up Dan!
Complete Set of Chopmarked Trade Dollars
Carson City Silver Dollars Complete 1870-1893http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=2722"
Excessively cool
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
You can still see the mint mark pretty well, I'd be ok with it. Neat coin.
Thanks guys, and yes the mint mark is still totally visible. Could be much worse.
Anyone have a chopped CC or P mint half dollar?
Great coin. Love the fields, especially.
Lance.
I know of two CC-mint Seated Halves. Both a bit too rich for my blood.
That is a great specimen.... really nice condition with clear chops.... Cheers, RickO
Show the 55s
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
The 55-S is a whole different beast.
I believe it got shipped to San Francisco or Los Angeles by train. The Texas, New Orleans and Pacific Railroad (TNOP) which was later absorbed into the Southern Pacific Railroad probably was the route.
It might have been shipped by express carrier (Like REA) and arrived at its' destination attached to a passenger train.
Best I can do.
Pete
Transcontinental Railroad did not come into existance until 1869. Your coin probably traveled by ship, but who knows, it is fun to speculate!
Complete Set of Chopmarked Trade Dollars
Carson City Silver Dollars Complete 1870-1893http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=2722"
I have a pair of chopped P-mint half dollars: 1836 and 1854. As well, I have an 1853-O.
Complete Set of Chopmarked Trade Dollars
Carson City Silver Dollars Complete 1870-1893http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=2722"
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Not often you see a coin that would be what 60k maybe more, chop marked. This one wasn’t nearly as nice.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-half-dollars/1855-s-50c-arrows-wb-101-die-pair-2-r5-ms62-pcgs/a/1258-3978.s
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
Would love to see pictures of those DDR!
Great coin.