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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CaptHenway, post: 7745456, member: 13813&quot;]It was easy to make a counterfeit in copper or brass via the casting method, but then you had to silver plate it to get the color right. A chop mark exposed the interior of the coin so you could see if it was silver colored inside. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, some counterfeiters would put random chop marks into a counterfeit before plating it, so the only way you could know if the interior was good to chop each coin as you received it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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