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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 206551, member: 112&quot;]The coin in the auction link posted is a half escudo. Chop marks were used by Chinese merchants and they were placed on coins to signify that they (the merchant) had tested or examined the coin and that they were satisfied it was genuine. The chop mark itself had nothing to do the actual testing - chop marks are merely a stamp of approval.</p><p><br /></p><p>The term doubloon applied to the 2 escudos coin - not the 8 escudos. The term itself means double. But the term has over the years become a colloquialism and is often used to describe just about any Spanish gold coin of any denomination of the time period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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