PERIODICAL: THE CHOPMARK NEWS DECEMBER 2020

I hope everyone is well and surviving the pandemic. It's hard to believe it has been a year already. Hopefully this new edition of The Chopmark News will lift your spirits.

In this issue we meet member Norm Cochrane. Norm is member 116—one of the originals and the second oldest active member.

I have three interesting articles. First is You Collect What? by Howard Daniel III. Howard reminisces about his early collecting days in Vietnam.

New member Ben Dalgleish has submitted an article on the history of chopmarked coins in Hong Kong where he lives. Ben also works as a part-time dealer and knows many of the key people in Hong Kong, including Tony Lee who I interviewed in June 2018 (issue 22 vol. 1).

The third article is a reprint by Pat & Margaret O'Rouke titled The Magic of Chopmarked Coins. It first appeared in the Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine Vol. 9 No. 7, August 2006. I would like to thank the Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine and Mrs. Margaret O'Rouke and editor John Mulhall for allowing us to reprint it.

Finally, I interview Dr. Helen Wang of the British Museum. She is Curator of East Asian Money at the British Museum.

There are also lots of pictures from members and recent auctions at Teutoburger Münzauktion, Stephen Album and Aureo & Calicó auction houses.

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