Wow, not sure what's going on tonight, but CT images are loading at the speed of molasses in January. Maybe the sub-freezing temps outside are making the light in the fibers sludgy. (Speed check still shows I'm getting over 300Mbps both ways.) My first (and I think only) trade dollar, not mine any more: As a proof, it was never intended to circulate, and I guess you'd say it didn't. PCGS called it PR Genuine, XF Details. I would've loved to hear their coffee-machine talk about it.
I guess the Maria Theresa thaler is kind of the "ultimate" Trade Thaler but should all thalers be considered as trade coins? @GDJMSP
My bad. My coin is a yen. The trade dollar is similar though. It's cupped and the obverse design damaged from the reverse chops. Circulated French TD's are very reasonably priced, incidentally. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1907-Frenc...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0
I'd have to say no that one. And even the MTTs were widely used in commerce both local and international, not just as trade coins. And I'm making that distinction because a lot of folks seem to think that just because a coin has been labeled as a trade coin that they weren't used or used widely in everyday commerce. And that simply isn't true in many cases. The definition of a trade coin is a coin minted and issued by the govt., but one that may, or may not, have legal tender status in the home country. Take the MTT for example, it was legal tender in its home country for over a 100 years. And it did not lose its status as being legal tender until 1858, almost a 100 years after the death of Maria Theresa. But yet it as used as a trade coin long before that.
