Post your patterns

Boosibri

I stumbled down the pattern rabbit hole because if you don’t buy them when you can, you won’t have the chance to buy them when you start to collect them later… post your patterns

Coinlover101

Nice coins!!

I have a prototype Vatican 1 Euro (or is it 2 Euro) somewhere. I must have bought that around 20 years ago (hopefully it's toned mad but I doubt it). I'll try to find it for a pic.

pruebas

Oy vey!

You can say that about anything. Just admit it. You’re in love!

jt88

1876 GERMANY Empire Silver 2 Mark Uniface Pattern

pruebas

Of course, I kid @Boosibri. Those are fabulous patterns. I’m glad he fell down the rabbit hole and think those are great additions to a great collection. I’m just so sorry about the Portales. I’m probably more sad than @Boosibri!

In the past, I would have been competition on them, but since coin prices have escalated so much, I find myself staying in my swim lane these days. I’ve learned the hard way, you can’t spread yourself too thin.

7Jaguars

1926 Great Britain Peace Crown Pattern:

1926 Great Britain 2 Shillings or Florin Rose Pattern:

HoledandCreative

Korea 1886

Boosibri

@pruebas said:
Of course, I kid @Boosibri. Those are fabulous patterns. I’m glad he fell down the rabbit hole and think those are great additions to a great collection. I’m just so sorry about the Portales. I’m probably more sad than @Boosibri!

In the past, I would have been competition on them, but since coin prices have escalated so much, I find myself staying in my swim lane these days. I’ve learned the hard way, you can’t spread yourself too thin.

I’ve still been unable to find the 1910 listed anywhere else,

jt88

jt88

Great Britain Unique experimental fantasy pattern 1937 in Bronze Copper

wybrit

1718 farthing in silver (not the unique copper piece from Cope). I made the decision not to bid on that copper piece because it had been cleaned.

pruebas

@jt88 said:

This coin came to you from me (via HA).

jt88

@pruebas said:

This coin came to you from me (via HA).

I like it because it is hard to find such dramatic large size mint error. If this is a US coin it will cost 10 times higher.

Abuelo

No patterns in my collection. Should I fix that?

pruebas

@Abuelo said:
No patterns in my collection. Should I fix that?

Of course. Everyone needs some patterns. (And medals. And tokens.)

They help to tell the story.

rwyarmch

Early_Milled_Latin_America

Is there a book on Mexican patterns? And if so is it a book worth owning?

I found this one is this the go to book?

Boosibri

It’s on cuartillios

Abuelo

@pruebas said:

Of course. Everyone needs some patterns. (And medals. And tokens.)

They help to tell the story.

The problem is that nearly all of them were already bought... by you!

pruebas

@Abuelo said:

@pruebas said:

Of course. Everyone needs some patterns. (And medals. And tokens.)

They help to tell the story.

The problem is that nearly all of them were already bought... by you!

A dealer once told me that if coins don’t trade, people can’t collect them and thus there is no interest and prices don’t rise.

It seems logical. That’s why I started selling my dups.

This is only a problem with Latin America, where surviving populations are low.

Maybe @MrEureka can comment?

Boosibri

@pruebas said:

@Abuelo said:

@pruebas said:

Of course. Everyone needs some patterns. (And medals. And tokens.)

They help to tell the story.

The problem is that nearly all of them were already bought... by you!

A dealer once told me that if coins don’t trade, people can’t collect them and thus there is no interest and prices don’t rise.

It seems logical. That’s why I started selling my dups.

This is only a problem with Latin America, where surviving populations are low.

Maybe @MrEureka can comment?

Tell that to Dunigan and Max

RSP

Perhaps someone would be kind enough to post a picture of PCGS #46339015. It is a handsome coin from the Huntington collection ; possibly unique and described as a pattern of the unadopted Isabel II gold design type and struck in silver.

Boosibri

Wonderful piece

cacheman

MrEureka

@pruebas said:

@Abuelo said:

@pruebas said:

Of course. Everyone needs some patterns. (And medals. And tokens.)

They help to tell the story.

The problem is that nearly all of them were already bought... by you!

A dealer once told me that if coins don’t trade, people can’t collect them and thus there is no interest and prices don’t rise.

It seems logical. That’s why I started selling my dups.

This is only a problem with Latin America, where surviving populations are low.

Maybe @MrEureka can comment?

Agreed, more or less. When one collector dominates a market, other collectors become discouraged and choose to collect something else. Then, when the dominant collector sells, other collectors seize the opportunity to start collecting the coins. The Simpson collection of U.S. patterns is a perfect example, in both ways. And in world coins, the dispersal of Richard Stuart’s collection of Central American coins is a textbook example of how a fresh supply of coins can turn a ghost town of a market into a bullish feeding frenzy. Of course it doesn’t always play out like that. Sometimes, the big collector decides to sell and nobody cares.

bosox

Uniface Canada 1858 Cent Pattern (PC-2). Ex Farouk and Norweb. About six of these known.