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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Black Friar, post: 3213034, member: 76221&quot;]I collect chop marked coins along with my specialties and am a member of the Chop Mark Collectors club.&nbsp; If I see a bargain I usually pick it up.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a book titled &quot;Chopmarked Coins A History- The silver coins used in China 1600-1935.&nbsp; Colin James Gullberg is the author.&nbsp; He significantly updated the old Rose edition in 2014 and shipped 35 books to the ANA show held in Chicago in August 2014.</p><p><br /></p><p>I saved postage as I was there and could pack it back home in my luggage.&nbsp; Colin is in the Department of English at Soochow University in Taiwan.&nbsp; A really great bloke and fun to talk with.&nbsp; Colin lists chopped Bust Halves as Scarce.&nbsp; He&#039;s been collecting for years and is president the CCC.</p><p><br /></p><p>The club website/ info page is: <a href="http://www.chopmarks.com/info/chop_club.shtm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.chopmarks.com/info/chop_club.shtm" rel="nofollow">http://www.chopmarks.com/info/chop_club.shtm</a>.&nbsp; Scott Semans of Washington State is the US distributor of the book which is very reasonably priced and much cheaper than having it shipped from Taiwan.&nbsp; Just some handy info.[ATTACH=full]834870[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]834871[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is a two real that is scarce, the US trade dollar is listed as common.&nbsp; These days some folks try to get too much money for the common chopped coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is a very historical series as the monetary history of China and silver imported coinage.&nbsp; I have a small collection of around 25 chopped coins from various countries.&nbsp; Have fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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