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lsica
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I love patterns. Beautiful, rare, unusual, and priced much lower than their rarity would suggest. Yeah I know price reflects supply and demand. Yeah I know many aren't "patterns" of anything and we're just struck to collector demand. I read the Judd book too. But, as the "kids" say, I think they're "lit". So post plentiful pics of Washladies, School Ma'rms, Amazonians, and whatever else you got 
Philately will get you nowhere....
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5 weeks latter and no takers on your topic ... too bad as I like patterns. Even after 5 Parts of the Simpson sale no one took you up to post a picture? .. it must be the subject line did not catch as I just noted it today.
well let me give it a shot as I have been working on assembling a Type collecting in patterns over several years now.
This is a photo I just posted yesterday on a topic of Shield nickels. My sample of various dies for shield pieces ( one I did pick up on the Simpson sale pt 4)
Sorry. I only have the obverse.
Pete
Not American, but North American. My favorite pattern and the first Peso of Mexico:
Lately I've been focusing on dollar patterns here are a few from my Boiler Bucks collection
Only pattern I have found that I liked. The other end of the spectrum, the lower end.
Even lower end are pattern tribute or reproduction strikes. For those of us who cannot afford even the "low priced" patterns, these are wonderful and beautiful additions to our collection.
There are several, mostly clandestine, makers of these. You run across them at very low prices occasionally. I think they exhibit 95% of the beauty of the originals. Sometimes the makers will pair an almost faithful reproduction with a non original reverse.
While most look on these with disdain, l like having a few around.
Z
Busy chasing Carr's . . . . . woof!
Successful BST transactions with: Bullsitter, Downtown1974, P0CKETCHANGE, Twobitcollector, AKbeez, DCW, Illini420, ProofCollection, DCarr, Cazkaboom, RichieURich, LukeMarshall, carew4me, BustDMs, coinsarefun, PreTurb, felinfoal, jwitten, GoldenEgg, pruebas, lazybones, COCollector, CuKevin, MWallace, USMC_6115, NamVet69, zippcity, . . . . who'd I forget?
Barbers concept for the new dollar coin in 1878
This same obverse was also used on proposals for goloid metric dollar designs in 1879 and 1880.
This one looks amazing! I love the Old English font style for E. Pluribus Unum.
You have a wonderful collection! Congrats and thanks for sharing them with us!
Here's one of mine
1964 Half Dollar Pattern - by INCO - NGC MS66 POP 0/2/0 - RB 2700 - Ex. Roger W. Burdette & Julian Leidman
J-60 Original, Medal Alignment PR64+ CAC
A handful of my most favorite patterns...Not my coins. I've always loved the Amazonian's, and of course the unique Barber pattern Half Dollar.
Of note, not only are many patterns classified as "fantasy coins" or "pieces de caprice", this is actually the largest category of patterns.
This distinction isn't noted in the guides and I wonder if this holds prices back.
Very beautiful pieces indeed! This may be of interest. The Double Deuce Proof Peace dollar was labeled as “Possibly a Pattern” in Chase Bank’s 'Moneys of the World exhibit,' 1928 - 1965. The label was applied by its curator Farran Zerbe. The pattern label avoided conflict with Mint records, since no proof coins were officially minted in 1922. This would have been important because of Zerbe’s previous stance regarding coins he believed were illicitly acquired from the Mint prior to 1910. The Zerbe specimen was liberated from the Bank’s exhibit in 1965 by Lester Merkin who gave 15 pattern coins worth $12,480 in trade. The exchange was facilitated by the Bank exhibit’s curator, none other than Don Taxay.
New at this and having trouble posting pics.
A few more
My Unique patterns and die trial
Visit USPatterns.com
Much as I hate to follow @boiler78 (
) because his coins are simply stunning 100% of the time (!!), I can post a picture I have of one of my patterns: J-846, one of the seemingly infinite number of Standard Silver patterns. The coin is graded PR64 RB, ex-Denali. Unlike most True Views, I think the coin is a touch prettier than its photo.
Only one I have, shield Rev of 60
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
Unique
holy crap, is that silver or lead die trial
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
Busy chasing Carr's . . . . . woof!
Successful BST transactions with: Bullsitter, Downtown1974, P0CKETCHANGE, Twobitcollector, AKbeez, DCW, Illini420, ProofCollection, DCarr, Cazkaboom, RichieURich, LukeMarshall, carew4me, BustDMs, coinsarefun, PreTurb, felinfoal, jwitten, GoldenEgg, pruebas, lazybones, COCollector, CuKevin, MWallace, USMC_6115, NamVet69, zippcity, . . . . who'd I forget?