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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 8345729, member: 77413&quot;]Chop marks on Trade Dollars are a badge of authenticity, in my mind. They prove the coin went to the Orient and someone there actually weighed the coin and marked it. Possibly it went right back into a bag of coins so it could be used as part of larger transactions, such as a bag of 100 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Assigning a Details grade for a chop mark does nothing at all to inform you about the overall quality of the coin. Consequently, I got this coin really cheaply, based on its grade and the single chop mark on the reverse. I can hardly even call it graded since the TPG gave no useful information about the grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1480291[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is full detail of the reverse, with the chop mark right in the center of the coin. I think that when the mark was applied may have been the only time the coin was ever handled.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1480321[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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