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On a slightly related note, I discovered a bit of provenance for a coin I already own by chance recently. This 1805-NG 8R is a difficult type with chopmarks and is in nice shape, I picked it up from … (View Post)

In addition to what @OriginalDan stated regarding the opening of Japan and the economic upheaval that occurred as a result of their wildly disparate exchange rates between gold and silver, there was … (View Post)

I'm going to comment in the context of my focus - chopmarks. There are a lot of combinations, and new hosts are being discovered all the time. But the marks don't have die indicators or many decades … (View Post)

I'd be interested in seeing more period documentation on 1859-S Seated Dollars being imported into China; I've seen the number of 15,000 being obtained for export, and the claim that 8,985 were procu… (View Post)

In the context of the diplomatic correspondence mentioned above, and the discussion on the use of foreign gold in China, I'd offer the following: Gold was not considered a common medium of exchange i… (View Post)