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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1971415, member: 112&quot;]No, I disagree. A countermark is put there by a monetary authority and it is accepted, trusted, because it is put there by a monetary authority.</p><p><br /></p><p>A chop mark is put there by a private individual, and it is accepted only by that specific private individual. That is why you so often see so many different chopmarks each put there by different individuals because they don&#039;t accept, trust, anybody else&#039;s chopmark except their own.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the difference. It doesn&#039;t have anything to do with it being Chinese, or English, or Bolivian, or any other country&#039;s. If an English merchant marked all coins he accepted with punches having his initials on them, I&#039;d consider those damage too. And I think just about anybody else would. Except perhaps the people who collect coins like that because they like them for that very reason. </p><p><br /></p><p>And there is nothing wrong with them liking them for that reason. But it&#039;s kind of hard not to call that damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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