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PERIODICAL: CHOPMARK NEWS DECEMBER 2025The latest issue of The Chopmark News has been published by editor Colin Gullberg. It's the official publication of the Chopmark Collectors Club. Here's the issue's the issue's table of contents followed by an excerpt from his From the Editor comments. -Garrett
From the Editor New Members
Meet our Members: Coins from the Nick Ostroy Collection Coins from Our Members' Collections
Chop Marks on Trade Dollars: Should We Avoid this Damage or Embrace it as Part of the Coin's Journey? Organized Chaos - Chopmarks on Foreign Coins By: S. Tai
Recent Chopmark Books
Blood Money
From Reddit The Interview — Akinbuko Kuroda Obituary: R. Waddell 
Here's an excerpt from Gullberg's From the Editor comments. -Garrett This is the second issue of 2025 and we have several very interesting articles for you. First we meet member Nick Ostroy. Nick is a neighbor of Taylor Leverage and has several very interesting coins featured in this issue. The Coins for Our Members' Collections is focused on the US trade dollar this issue. I asked for submissions and it seems like a lot of you collect this coin so I'm devoting this issue to it exclusively. Dave Lombardo spotted an article from Greysheet which they have generously given us permission to reprint about everyone's favorite coin—the US trade dollar! I'm finally printing an article that Stephan Tai sent me some time ago. Stephen, who lives in Taiwan, has discovered facts allowing us to better understand the chop-marking patterns of the shroffs of Shanghai/Fujien and Soochow. Your editor has written a modest article on the current state of books devoted to chopmarks. On page 80 we are reprinting the Eric Brothers article Blood Money, from the ANA's The Numismatist maga zine. It's a fascinating read. We also have three pages of coins from Taylor Leverage's Reddit page. This is just a taste of Taylor's work and I urge all members to join the ChopmarkedCoins sub-Reddit. Finally, I had the pleasure to interview Prof. Akinbuko Kuroda, who happens to be a visiting professor in Taipei. He has written extensively in monetary economic history and is very familiar with the coins used in the chopmark period. I will be interviewing Ed Murphy in early 2026 so if you have questions for Ed please email them to me. Colin Gullberg editor
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