Definition

• Shroff.  To sort circulating silver coins in trade according to fineness by banks and merchants in the Orient. The term is both the verb for the act – also called shroffing– and the employee who does the testing. He sorts out spurious coin, notes debased coins and marks acceptable standard coin with a chop mark (also called shroff mark). He marks acceptable coins with a punch containing his bank’s or merchant’s symbol. Coins rapidly became heavily chop marked after many transactions. See illustration, chop mark.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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