Trade Dollar: 27.22 grams, composition .900 silver .100 copper (net weight .7874 oz pure silver) diameter 38.1 mm Silver Eagle: 31.101 grams, composition .9993 silver, .0007 copper (net weight 1 oz pure silver) diameter 40.6 mm Trade dollar was made to compete with circulating currency's in the orient. ASE was made for knot heads (like you and me) who want to own silver bullion........
I can't see how they would be, given that trade dollars were made to circulate (yeah, overseas, but they definitely did), and ASEs were made to sit in their capsules or tubes.
