Are these chopmarks on this Flying Eagle Cent? or just damage?
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Going through some odds and ends that I have accumulated, sell or what ever. This 1858 has markings on the obverse, that remind me of chopmarks. But I am clueless on why someone felt the need to chopmark a copper coin? So perhaps just damage... what do you think?
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Looks like damage to me. Has no definition of any chop marks to me.
Random damage
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Damage, some sort of tool for sure but board 11 year old boy in his dads work shop type
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Absolutely damage….
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Looks like some one dropped a chain on it, fwiw
Many thanks for the input! Figured it was damage myself... but never hurts to get a second opinion.
Even if it were chop marks, my personal opinion is chop marks are damage.
I mean you're not wrong but they are historically correlated with specific circulation. More analogous with wear in the collectible context. Not as made but as intended.
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