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<p>[QUOTE="jhinton, post: 1489065, member: 24410"]Those are indeed chopmarks. When a merchant deemed the coin to be accurate i.e. the correct weight and finess, then the said merchant would stamp the coin with his mark. Coins with a lot of marks such as yours have a lot of history due to the fact that they were used by a lot of different merchants. Some of the chopmarks can even be traced to specific merchants and locations allowing a collector to trace where his coin has been in the past! </p><p><br /></p><p>The swastikas that you see were just another chopmark. The swastika symbol has been used for hundreds of years before it was used as a symbol of hate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jhinton, post: 1489065, member: 24410"]Those are indeed chopmarks. When a merchant deemed the coin to be accurate i.e. the correct weight and finess, then the said merchant would stamp the coin with his mark. Coins with a lot of marks such as yours have a lot of history due to the fact that they were used by a lot of different merchants. Some of the chopmarks can even be traced to specific merchants and locations allowing a collector to trace where his coin has been in the past! The swastikas that you see were just another chopmark. The swastika symbol has been used for hundreds of years before it was used as a symbol of hate.[/QUOTE]
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