The Silver Trade Dollars
These silver crown size “dollars” were used mainly for trade purposes and chiefly for the China trade (in payment by the Western world, for tea, silk and porcelain-ware from China) for very many years, and certainly up to the early part of the 20th Century. I have also included the Japanese Silver yen and the Straits Settlements silver one dollar coins of the period (from the reign of King Edward VIII until King George VI) in this category. In addition, there is the sub-category of “chopped” or counter-marked coins that were circulated in the China trade; these were applied mostly to the Mexican, British, US and the Japanese coins (a “Gin” mark was also stamped on the Japanese silver one yen coin that was used for trade purposes, and circulated outside of Japan). |
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