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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 1680193, member: 11854&quot;]I didn&#039;t think it would be a large issue to write &quot;Asian market&quot; since Hong Kong and China are considered parts of Asia.&nbsp; It is simply how I wrote it and of course not everyone who might be included in any descriptive market name would treat all coins in the same manner.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not here to necessarily defend the decisions of PCGS and NGC, so I won&#039;t do that.&nbsp; However, I think we typically see the advent of love tokens with Seated Liberty coinage, yet the US Mint produced FH, DB, CB and RE coin designs prior to Seated Liberty coins.&nbsp; Therefore, it could be that the US Mint was producing coinage a bit before the general time frame of the mass production of love tokens.&nbsp; This sequence of events would be the opposite as seen with Trade dollars since coins were subjected to chop marks in various portions of the Asian market prior to the production of Trade dollars and, as such, a contemporary familiar with those markets might have reasonably expected a certain percentage of Trade dollars to be treated in a manner consistent with prior coinage.&nbsp; It&#039;s a subtle difference, but quite profound.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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