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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1971407, member: 9204&quot;]The amazing part is that a chopmark and a countermark are the exact same thing. A chop mark says &quot;this is good silver, it can circulate here.&quot; A countermark often says the same thing. The difference is that one of them is in Chinese and unidentifiable, while the other is more often in a western language and is usually attributable. Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure the next thing you&#039;ll say is that countermarks were applied by an official entity. While this holds true in many cases, it is far from universal. </p><p><br /></p><p>I love thinking about this bigger-picture kind of stuff. The influences of processual archaeology on my academic upbringing have really made me aware of how coins from different eras functioned in basically the same way, and how one can teach us about the other.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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