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Essai equals Pattern Coin ? DQ #2

FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Dumb question number two for the day. image Essai is a pattern coin. Is this correct ? It also looks like these are quite collectable. I can't win one anyway.

Ken

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  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    Essai or Pattern is any coin struck from a prototype die or dies to test a new design or concept...I thinkimage
    Omnicoin
  • GDJMSPGDJMSP Posts: 799 ✭
    Well kinda - but not really. The French essai issues were usually done as part of a competition - to see which design would be used. Sometimes there were big elaborate competitions and sometimes the folks at the mint just made their choice.

    There were times when dies were tested - but these issues are called die trials or trial strikes and are different from patterns or essais.
    knowledge ........ share it
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks much for the explanations.

    Ken
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