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<p>[QUOTE="Bob Evancho, post: 3526813, member: 84595"]On another forum, the Lost Dutchman said" Chop marks were made famous by US trade dollars. They were used earlier on Spanish milled dollars that went overseas. They were used to mark a coin as yours because either a bank does not exist near you or because the banks that are near you don't take that particular currency or coin. If you mark a coin and someone steals it you are able to identify it. This tradition continues today in cities in the Middle East and Asia. I am going to start to document these marks as I find them on modern American currency. " This is the same advise my Chinese friend said when he was going over my chop marked coins and telling me about the merchant or family who once owned the coin. I wish George Washington chop marked his coins. What a lesson in History it would be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Evancho, post: 3526813, member: 84595"]On another forum, the Lost Dutchman said" Chop marks were made famous by US trade dollars. They were used earlier on Spanish milled dollars that went overseas. They were used to mark a coin as yours because either a bank does not exist near you or because the banks that are near you don't take that particular currency or coin. If you mark a coin and someone steals it you are able to identify it. This tradition continues today in cities in the Middle East and Asia. I am going to start to document these marks as I find them on modern American currency. " This is the same advise my Chinese friend said when he was going over my chop marked coins and telling me about the merchant or family who once owned the coin. I wish George Washington chop marked his coins. What a lesson in History it would be.[/QUOTE]
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