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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 739354, member: 4703&quot;]Chopmarked Mexican/Spanish coins circulated in Japan from the mid-late 19th Century until the very early 20th Century.&nbsp; In other parts of Asia they began circulating as early as the late 18th Century, into the early 20th Century.&nbsp; That&#039;s much of the same period that Japanese Yen, Japanese Trade Dollars, US and British Trade Dollars, and other silver crowns were being used based on weight.&nbsp; (Maria Theresa Thalers didn&#039;t get a whole lot of East Asian circulation.)</p><p><br /></p><p>A &quot;chopmark&quot; applied after the character 円 came into usage would have been made by someone creating a fantasy coin, not a merchant attesting to the purity and weight of the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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