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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2625384, member: 12789&quot;]Up until the 1980s or so coins with chop marks traded at considerably less - so they were not likely to be counterfeited.&nbsp; With collectors in China showing interests in the chop marked coins that all changed, and now chopped coins can trade for considerably more than the original coins.&nbsp; So now the fakers take a fake coin and apply fake chop marks on it and age it so it appears original.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can remember as a teenager buying up chopped Mexican 8 reales coins for $4-5 each when silver was low because there was no interest in &quot;damaged&quot; coins.&nbsp; Now they are fairly collectable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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