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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 282, member: 57463&quot;]Chop marks are common on Trade Dollars.&nbsp; They are not limited to early American (or Spanish) silver by any means.&nbsp; Mexican pesos from the late 1800s have them, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chops are shorthand symbols, often family names or other common ideograms (star bursts, and so on).&nbsp; I have never seen a chop where there was any question about it.&nbsp; Single lonely isolated chops are uncommon.&nbsp; Usually, if&nbsp; a coin has one, it has several.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is probably something else.&nbsp; Someone may have cut into the coin on purpose.&nbsp; It might have been used as a wedge in a machine.&nbsp; A thousand things might be the cause.&nbsp; Seeing the coin would be helpful, but not always definitive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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