Interesting pickup (trade dollar coin dish) - Translation help? (solved)

TradesWithChops · October 2, 2019 5:06PM

Hi-
I bought an interesting coin dish because it has a trade dollar with chopmarks welded on it. Can anyone tell here tell me maybe what this stands for? It's a far shot, but thought id ask!

Thanks-

Here's the dish:

yosclimber · October 2, 2019 5:10PM

WH90 = Wang Hing (silversmith countermark) Hong Kong, 1854-1930
http://www.chineseargent.com/home/chinese-silver-hallmark

TradesWithChops · October 2, 2019 5:10PM

@yosclimber said:
WH90 = Wang Hing (silversmith countermark)
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19947/lot/48/

thank you!

TradesWithChops · October 2, 2019 5:11PM

Thank you - you guys are awsome

thebeav · October 2, 2019 5:13PM

My guess for the '90'part, the bowl would be .900 fine silver (coin silver)......

johnny9434 · October 2, 2019 6:18PM

Nice pick up

kaz · October 2, 2019 6:30PM

That's really cool... and now you know who made it!

DDR · October 2, 2019 8:48PM

That is so cool!

MilkmanDan · October 2, 2019 10:01PM

Very neat! Watcha gonna put in that bowl?

stealer · October 2, 2019 11:00PM

That's awesome! That made me check my silver candy dish (it has a Yuan Shi Kai dollar in it), but alas I couldn't find a countermark on it.

ricko · October 3, 2019 4:29AM

Is that one dollar welded/soldered into a hole in the bowl? Or one inside, another one outside? It looks like the first option, but then the bowl must be fairly thin....Just curious... Cheers, RickO

Kliao · October 3, 2019 5:10AM

Wow nice. And there’s a chop for your collection

mustangmanbob · October 3, 2019 5:19AM

I am thinking, since it is Hong Kong, British Colony, and the Brits were 92%, and the bowl is marked 90%, then could the bowl be melted down US coins, hence the trade dollar.

Kliao · October 3, 2019 5:21AM

@mustangmanbob said:
I am thinking, since it is Hong Kong, British Colony, and the Brits were 92%, and the bowl is marked 90%, then could the bowl be melted down US coins, hence the trade dollar.

Good thinking could be

TradesWithChops · October 3, 2019 7:01AM

@ricko said:
Is that one dollar welded/soldered into a hole in the bowl? Or one inside, another one outside? It looks like the first option, but then the bowl must be fairly thin....Just curious... Cheers, RickO

One coin, in between thin bowl

DCW · October 3, 2019 7:09AM

Like that alot. Bowl definitely looks to be coin silver

amwldcoin · October 3, 2019 7:11AM

Actually a silver bowl the thickness of a trade dollar would be a pretty hefty bowl!

@ricko said:
Is that one dollar welded/soldered into a hole in the bowl? Or one inside, another one outside? It looks like the first option, but then the bowl must be fairly thin....Just curious... Cheers, RickO

Tomthecoinguy · October 3, 2019 8:49AM

I have seen other bowls like that with coins in them, Half, and quarter, but I have not seen this trade dollar one. I would not mind a collection of coin bowls like that!

Hemispherical · October 3, 2019 8:55AM

Could the bowl itself be made from a combination of melted various Ag coins and hammered out. Thats is awesome and a very nice pickup!

DrBuster · October 3, 2019 9:27AM

Nice.

TradesWithChops · October 3, 2019 10:38AM

@Hemispherical said:
Could the bowl itself be made from a combination of melted various Ag coins and hammered out. Thats is awesome and a very nice pickup!

Im not an expert in such things, but it does appear that this may be the case.

Interesting pickup (trade dollar coin dish) - Translation help? (solved)

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