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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tenacious, post: 435182, member: 14553&quot;]Thanks <b>willieboyd2</b>. I go back and forth on this. It&#039;s a coin I&#039;m considering buying but there is a language barrier with the seller so it&#039;s hard to get a better verbal description of the coin and marks.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if this site has been posted before but some of you may find it of use, or at least interesting:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.sycee-on-line.com/Chopmarked_coins.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sycee-on-line.com/Chopmarked_coins.htm" rel="nofollow">Chopmarked Foreign Silvers</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Make sure to look at the coins under the <b>Specimens</b> section. He shows good examples but I wish the pictures were bigger and clearer.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was after looking through the examples that made me think again that those may be chopmarks on the above coin. The site shows 2 types of fonts for the Chinese characters. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.sycee-on-line.com/Foreign_silver_coins.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sycee-on-line.com/Foreign_silver_coins.htm" rel="nofollow">Scroll down on this page to see the 2 font types</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>- the smaller font (Type 1)</b> - many are not so easily recognizable as Chinese characters, some look like accidental dings on the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p><b> - the larger font&nbsp; (Type 2)</b> -&nbsp; these are easily recognizable as Chinese characters.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The marks on the coin I posted <i>could be</i> the smaller font Type 1 chopmarks. But it&#039;s hard to say. I think I will just buy the coin and see. Either way I&#039;m going to stop obsessing about it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I just really enjoy researching coins and their history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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