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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1680185, member: 26302&quot;]I didn&#039;t know they would place them in problem free holders. That is a huge error IMHO. Not unless they plan on placing ALL COINS with countermarks in problem free holders. We had a long history in this country of countermarking large cents. Are those in problem free holders as well?</p><p><br /></p><p>I also do not agree its an &quot;asian thing&quot;. It was a Hong Kong and a few other areas of China thing to place chopmarks on coins, but it was not universal. In most areas of Asia countermarked coins were done officially to retariff a coin locally, but not by individual merchants en masse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do like chopmarked coins, I also like countermarked coins. However, unless you treat ALL the same, I just feel its a huge error to treat just one issue differently.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, why WOULD is be different than a half dime love token? They were used a LOT to make them, we had a culture of making them on half dimes. I would wager a pretty good percentage of half dimes were treated this way. What is the difference?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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