Daaang! Nicely toned examples, too! I like the first one. These sure skyrocketed in price over the last 15 years or so, since I last owned one.
Very nice examples! You have to love a crown size business strike coin dated 1895 (with no mint mark)....
Yeah, I just got my first one about a month ago. It took three tries but I got one at the price I was willing to pay. I like trade dollars. I need a US version, but they're probably the most expensive. I've got 1 Brit, 1 China " Fat Man" and about 5 French Indo-China Piasters. 2 of the Piasters have chop marks. Who else made trade dollars? I've seen 8 reales coins with chop marks. I guess they were the original trade dollars. Your Brits are much nicer than mine.
Yeah, so subtle I can't even tell where it is. Wait, I think I'm seeing it on some of the wavy things.
Japan made a trade dollar for a very brief period in the 1870s. Super pricey, though; the only way I managed to get one at a (semi) reasonable price was to settle for one that was heavily chopmarked and cleaned. Still, it helped me fill in that pesky slot in the Dansco Japan Type album!
Quint said : "Japan made a trade dollar for a very brief period in the 1870s. Super pricey, though;" Looked it up on numista...nice coin. I like that dragon holding the pearl. That's a recurrent theme in Chinese and Japanese coins. You're right about price....there's an eBay listing now for $799.00
Given how much of the reverse of that second one is doubled, it looks more like machine doubling than a double die to me. Still, super cool coins.
That's what I thought at first, but the ends of the horizontal strokes are split. I need to study it more.
It also looks to have extra thickness in the design with possible separation lines. I would be interested in what you come up with.
