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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Seattlite86, post: 1959285, member: 59737&quot;]Actual gouges in the coin, like the bottom left wing with what looks like a nike swoosh.&nbsp; That, or someone might have had a low grade Trade Dollar and decided they could get more money for one with chop marks.&nbsp; I have a friend who collects chopmarks and here is what he opined:</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve looked through 23 years of &quot;Chopmark News&quot; and haven&#039;t found a single chopmarked coin image that displays either a solid triangular punch mark (for testing) or a solid triangular chop. Test marks are described (and shown in Chopmark News images) as either a small round or small square&nbsp; punches in the coin&#039;s surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>On your coin&#039;s obv at 9:00 the elongated triangular mark and it&#039;s rev, the two triangular marks: one at about 5:30 close to the center, and one at 10:30 half way between the center and the rim resemble test punches, but these three marks would likely have made caused me not to purchase this coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; They certainly resembles test punches, but they may chops that I haven&#039;t come across yet or they may be fake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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