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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ahearn, post: 594649, member: 18211&quot;]With all respect to the expertise of GDJMSP, it&#039;s not clear to me how this coin can be so quickly dismissed as a replica from a photograph and a chopmark.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>How can one tell if a chopmark is faked since a chopmark can literally be anything, any shape, anywhere on the coin? And why would a replica or modern fake maker go so far as to include a chopmark (actually looks like three marks), which to many collectors would devalue the coin? If the coin is actually an old counterfeit, the chopmark could be real -- or it could have been faked at the time the coin was made and circulated in the Far East to make it appear more genuine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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