Does anyone know how the term pattern coin originated.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,243 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 29, 2024 3:54PM

  https://uspatterns.com/glossary1.html

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,243 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 29, 2024 3:54PM

  @Saul Teichman
  @Andy Lustig

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author of "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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• Bustquarterhound Posts: 149 ✭✭✭

  November 30, 2024 5:36AM

  Thanks Capt.

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• DrDarryl Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 30, 2024 6:34AM

  Annual report of the Director of the Mint, 1887

  

  

  

  

  

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,243 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 30, 2024 8:28AM

  Impressive citation!

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author of "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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• JCH22 Posts: 464 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 30, 2024 9:15AM edited February 5, 2025 3:43PM

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• Bustquarterhound Posts: 149 ✭✭✭

  November 30, 2024 10:30AM

  Thank-you Dr Darryl that was most informative.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,243 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 30, 2024 11:20AM

  Anybody have access to an Oxford English Dictionary?

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author of "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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• JCH22 Posts: 464 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 30, 2024 12:48PM edited December 2, 2024 9:50AM

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• JCH22 Posts: 464 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 30, 2024 1:05PM edited February 5, 2025 3:43PM

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