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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 3561756, member: 24314&quot;]I have a <font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000"><b>BIG</b></span></font> <span style="color: #ff0000">suggestion</span>.&nbsp; Please don&#039;t post the fact that you know nothing about Trade dollars and then call the coins counterfeit!&nbsp; It appears there is ONLY one member here who collects &quot;Chopped Trades&quot; and I don&#039;t agree with some of what he has posted.&nbsp; <i>What I will say is I have seen C/F Trades with C/F chops and Genuine Trades with C/F chops.&nbsp; As long as chops are becoming more popular they will be counterfeited.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Edge reeding, number of chops, etc. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; These coins have become very difficult to authenticate in hand even using high magnification! &quot;Chops&quot; are an entirely different thing.&nbsp; There are probably very few folks in the world who are qualified to authenticate one.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the thread on the other forum (CU) I posted something similar.&nbsp; Anyway, IMHO at this time every TPGS would slab these coins as genuine.&nbsp; Right or wrong, that is the state of things at the moment.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS&nbsp; In the 60&#039;s and 70&#039;s some dealers had piles of chopped trades considered to be just damaged junk.&nbsp; They were in VF and higher and dark - priced at $35 each, pick at $45.&nbsp; I got my S/CC slider Unc with less than four chops for $45. It dipped out to an MS-62 beauty.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t have the money to buy any other Trade dollars in the pile. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Many of the coins were so chopped they were practically unidentifiable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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