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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 10661904, member: 76316&quot;]This is a paste of a post I left on CoinTalk, June 1 this year. The only helpful response referred me to a subreddit on Chop-marked coins; the few responses all agreed it was interesting, and (as most of these are) that it had been cleaned, but not violently. I cannot even find my thread on Reddit now. If any of you can offer assistance or further direction, I&#039;ll be very grateful. Thanks for lookin&#039;! </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Good day, mates!</i></p><p><i>This belongs to a friend who knows even less than I do about numismatics, but &quot;it was Dad&#039;s&quot; is all I have...he&#039;s 81, his pappy died ~30 years ago.</i></p><p><i>The coin is in reasonable condition to my eyes; that single chop-mark is why it&#039;s before this forum. A quick look says a simple arrow pointed right...but I&#039;m less sure about that assumption the more I look at it. The mark was deeply stamped, resulting in damage to the word FINE on the reverse, as well as a slight &#039;bubble&#039; at that spot. The obverse I believe shows a single stamp was used to make all 4 &#039;brushstrokes&#039; of that symbol at one blow, but I am not sure about that, either.</i></p><p><i>If it is not an arrow, then it seems likely the mark is an Asian character...which, singly or in groups or series, I think was pretty common on these as well as a variety of other roughly similar coins used as trade currency globally during that period.</i></p><p><i>Can anyone please help me to identify the mark, an&#039; its significance on this dollar? Your comments are all mostwelcome, including grading estimates...Thanks for lookin&#039;!</i></p><p><i>Edit: Weight is 27.3 grams; diameter is ~38mm.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533143[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533144[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533145[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533146[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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