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Another Ultra Chopmarked Dollar in the Set... 1873-S PCGS AU58
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What started as a single, cheap coin purchased some 15 years ago has turned into a hunt to put together a date set. These don't come up often, and the ones that do are often overpriced and more common dates. This one showed up on Heritage a few weeks ago, and I made it mine. I now have 10 of the 18 dates for the series, with this being the highest grade of them all. Under the chopmarks, it's a nice, lustrous coin with light golden surfaces.
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I've always liked the chopmarked Trades. One can only imagine the travels of that one.
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Holy chop marks, Batman!
Nice!
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Nice one
Congratulations !!!
How the hell can that be graded?
Except for the hundred brutal impacts, it looks to be very lightly circulated. Really?
I think someone was mad at that Trade dollar! Yikes!
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That's a very cool looking piece. It even appears to have retained some luster!
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Plenty, in fact! In the untouched parts of the coin, it's as lustrous as you'd expect for an AU58.
Lots of history there, I like it thanks rln
Quite often you'll find these with the chops on one side only, leaving the other side totally rough (see below). The nice thing about yours is you can see chopmarks on both sides, somewhat obscuring the rough patches with reciprocal damage. I also like how the chops are mostly grouped together, and that's a really big test cut on the obverse. Nice coin.
Here's the Mexican version...I'm glad that these cost much less than the U.S. counterpart! I really enjoy them, hoping they don't shoot up in price like the trade dollars have.
Wow... that is a lot of chops.... I often wonder what happened to the chop tools that made these marks. Never seen them for sale.... Cheers, RickO
Good question.
My understanding is that we've only seen a drawing of what the tools looked like, no one has an actual punch (not even any museums). Possibly they were all melted, but you'd think a few would have survived melting since there must have been hundreds if not thousands of these tools. It's certainly puzzling.
I find it very strange..... such tools were in common use for many years. To think that none survived is just not credible. I will have to think of a way to initiate a focused search for these items...Hmmmm... yep, already a plan is forming in my devious intellect.
Cheers, RickO
Very cool, Jeremy!
Complete Set of Chopmarked Trade Dollars
Carson City Silver Dollars Complete 1870-1893http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=2722"
And I have often asked the same question Ricko has. The answer may be that no one has ever really looked that hard.
Complete Set of Chopmarked Trade Dollars
Carson City Silver Dollars Complete 1870-1893http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=2722"
I am sure the Chinese would make one for you. Any particular chop you would like?
I assume that if the originals hadn't simply disappeared from attrition and non-use once foreign silver coins were demonetized in the 1930s, and survived being used as scrap metal during the war with Japan before and during WWII proper, they were banned, confiscated, destroyed after the revolution in 1949 in Communist China, when a merchant certifying the value of something with a stamp would have probably earned him an all-expense-paid trip to "camp."
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Nice coin Jeremy, I like Chopmarked Trade $'s as well. I have had several very nice one in the past.
Nope. Most of the coins are raw. Off the top of my head, I think this is the second graded piece I have.
I’ve gotta say, Jeremy, I have never seen so many chop marks on any single coin like that in my entire like, and I’m old!
VERY cool too!!
I’ve gotta say, Jeremy, I have never seen so many chop marks on any single coin like that in my entire like, and I’m old!
VERY cool too!!
Here's one that crossed my desk back in 2000. At least that's the date on the file. Shot with film several years before I got a digital camera.
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Glad these are becoming more appreciated, but also not glad, because my set is far from finished.