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<p>[QUOTE="Hookman, post: 4161292, member: 99642"]From Wiki :</p><p><br /></p><p>"<b>Chop marks on coins</b> are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters" rel="nofollow">Chinese characters</a> stamped onto coins by merchants in order to validate the weight, authenticity and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fineness" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fineness" rel="nofollow">silver content</a> of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Starting with the 18th century, a number of European, American and Japanese silver coins (generically known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar" rel="nofollow">trade dollar</a>) began circulating in the Far East. Each merchant's firm had its own mark and, after heavy circulation, the design of the coin became completely obliterated by the chop marks.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_marks_on_coins#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_marks_on_coins#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> "</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Key sentence from this Wiki entry : ".......and, after heavy circulation, the design of the coin became completely obliterated by the chop marks."</p><p><br /></p><p>Gee, is that really possible ???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hookman, post: 4161292, member: 99642"]From Wiki : "[B]Chop marks on coins[/B] are [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters']Chinese characters[/URL] stamped onto coins by merchants in order to validate the weight, authenticity and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fineness']silver content[/URL] of the coin. Starting with the 18th century, a number of European, American and Japanese silver coins (generically known as the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar']trade dollar[/URL]) began circulating in the Far East. Each merchant's firm had its own mark and, after heavy circulation, the design of the coin became completely obliterated by the chop marks.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_marks_on_coins#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] " Key sentence from this Wiki entry : ".......and, after heavy circulation, the design of the coin became completely obliterated by the chop marks." Gee, is that really possible ???[/QUOTE]
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