EagleRJO Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Hmmm, do you think the merchants added enough chop marks to this Trade Dollar? Fenntucky Mike, Mike Meenderink and NeverEnoughCoins09 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Meenderink Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 It's been around that's for sure. IMO that's what makes these chop marked coins so interesting is the proof of travel and heavy commerce. I wouldn't collect several of these but possibly one or two for numismatic examples. Cool coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powermad5000 Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Nah. C'mon, there's room for more of em! I know you have interest in these chopmarked issues, but I see a destroyed coin. An 1873 on top of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWB Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Mutilated, nothing more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenntucky Mike Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 They beat the snot out of that one. Yikes! EagleRJO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleRJO Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 On 2/18/2024 at 3:09 PM, powermad5000 said: I know you have interest in these chopmarked issues, but I see a destroyed coin I do collect chop marked Trade dollars, and was initially interested since it was chop marked and straight graded AU50. I think a few chop marks can add character to some of these, but when I clicked on the image link my eyes bulged out. I have no idea how PCG$ straight graded this ruined coin, but I guess if you decide to straight grade chop marked coins where do you draw the line and justify that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powermad5000 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 On 2/18/2024 at 9:46 PM, EagleRJO said: I guess if you decide to straight grade chop marked coins where do you draw the line and justify that. I agree here @EagleRJO. Despite that I am of the camp that chopmarked coins are damaged (just my singular opinion), if the TPG's are going to assign a straight grade to a coin and add "Chopmarked" to the label under that straight grade, then in my opinion, whether it is one single chopmark, two, or the chopmark potpourri we see on the coin you posted, then they should try to determine the grade on what of the coin is left unmolested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henri Charriere Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Blast from the Past! 🐓 : That was a Trade Dollar??? Q.A.: I know... it's a long story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleRJO Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 On 2/22/2024 at 5:30 PM, Henri Charriere said: Blast from the Past! 🐓 : That was a Trade Dollar??? Q.A.: I know... it's a long story. Hmmm, are you cracking up (for the third time?) talking to the Rooster again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleRJO Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 On 2/19/2024 at 6:25 PM, powermad5000 said: I am of the camp that chopmarked coins are damaged As do many. I tend to look at in terms of it was customary and accepted practice for merchants in Asia to check and then mark silver coins, and the US was shipping the vast majority of the Trade Dollars directly to Asia for use in trade where they must have been aware they would be marked. I think it is interesting how divided collectors are about that, and even the TPG big boys are divided on this with one Details grading chopped coins and the other straight grading them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henri Charriere Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 On 2/22/2024 at 5:41 PM, EagleRJO said: Hmmm, are you cracking up (for the third time?) talking to the Rooster again. Mere thoughts, musings, EagleRJO. Btw, I do appreciate the good-natured Reality checks! EagleRJO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
