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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4214441, member: 85693&quot;]I would agree that looks more like a countermark than a chopmark.&nbsp; India rupees with chopmarks are quite scarce - it didn&#039;t really fit in with the &quot;trade dollar&quot; weight that was preferred in China so it seems most of them were melted down.&nbsp; Frank Rose&#039;s book discusses this, as I dimly recall. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not a match, but it reminded me of the &quot;Yong Kim&quot; from Thailand countermarks on world coins.&nbsp; This is an extensive series, that appears to have been extensively counterfeited and/or &quot;reissued&quot; unofficially. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one I sold off from my collection a couple years ago (on a Straits Settlements dollar):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1079641[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a bunch of them - some very suspect to me:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://colnect.com/en/coins/list/country/211-Thailand/series/304872-1858~1940_-_Countermarked_coinage/year/1940/rim/0-Unknown" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://colnect.com/en/coins/list/country/211-Thailand/series/304872-1858~1940_-_Countermarked_coinage/year/1940/rim/0-Unknown" rel="nofollow">https://colnect.com/en/coins/list/country/211-Thailand/series/304872-1858~1940_-_Countermarked_coinage/year/1940/rim/0-Unknown</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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