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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 3532357, member: 74863&quot;]If could have been used as a pocket piece or used as a worry stone. It could also have been circulated in places that don&#039;t use chop marks. Even though the US government minted Trade Dollars for use overseas (Asia to compete against dollar sized coins from other countries) they were allowed to circulate in the US.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trade Dollars were legal tender in the US until silver prices dropped, then that provision was repealed and the Treasury had to limit the coin to export demand only. In 1887 the US Treasury redeemed Trade Dollars that were not mutilated. Having a chop mark was mutilated. </p><p><br /></p><p>Other possibilities are in could have been placed in a rock tumbler to give it wear as in circulation condition. Lol[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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