A pattern coin is a coin which has not been approved for release, but produced to evaluate a proposed coin design. They are often off-metal strike (using...

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and remained only as pattern pieces. The exact number of Edward VIII coins in existence is unknown. The vast majority of the coins from the United Kingdom...

the coin was designed as a pattern coin, similar to the Gobrecht dollar, many catalogs list the coin as a regular-issue item. The Stella was a pattern coin...

dollar coin (also known as Continental dollar coin, Fugio dollar, or Franklin dollar) was the first pattern coin struck for the United States. The coins, which...

Coin edges are the parts of a coin's surface between the faces; they may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include...

1879 pattern coin was made for the quintuple Stella using a design combining features of the Liberty Head double eagle and Stella pattern coin and using...

is a list of Japanese pattern coins from the yen based currency system started under the Meiji Restoration. The first patterns of the yen based system...

The Union was a proposed $100 coin of the United States dollar. It was canceled before any pattern coins could be minted. In 1854, San Francisco businessmen...

Recoinage of 1816. It was not struck until 1820, and then only as a pattern coin. It was issued again in small numbers in 1826, 1829 and 1839, with the...

ordered pattern coins struck. Linderman eventually decided on an obverse and reverse similar to that of other silver coins. Although the coins have a smooth...

struck by the Mint of the United States as a pattern coin in 1856 and for circulation in 1857 and 1858. The coin was designed by Mint Chief Engraver James...

King Edward VIII (1936) does exist, dated 1937, but technically it is a pattern coin i.e. one produced for official approval; it would probably have been...

VIII (reigned 1936) does exist, dated 1937, but technically it is a pattern coin, one produced for official approval, which it was due to receive at about...

United States pattern coin with a face value of fifty U.S. Dollars. It is often thought of as one of the most significant and well-known patterns in the history...

Head coins — Barber dime, Barber quarter, and Barber half dollar, as well as the so-called "V" Liberty Head nickel. Some lesser known pattern coin designs...

A nickel is a five-cent coin struck by the United States Mint. Composed of cupronickel (75% copper and 25% nickel), the piece has been issued since 1866...

has on display a pattern coin showing that occupation coinage was considered. The pattern on display is a 20-cent aluminum pattern coin inscribed on the...

Petition Crown was a pattern coin produced in 1663 by Thomas Simon, a celebrated English medallist and coin-designer. The coin was submitted directly...

The one sen coin (一銭) was a Japanese coin worth one-hundredth of a Japanese yen, as 100 sen equalled 1 yen. One sen coins were first struck for circulation...

(頒布樣錢), an official pattern coin. Jincheng yang qian (進呈樣錢), "Present to the Emperor" sample coin. Jiyuan qian (記元錢), a cash coin cast to commemorate...

in the years 1906 and 1907, despite the production these pattern coins the Great Qing Gold Coin did not ever see any circulation. The Qing dynasty used...

a twenty-five pence denomination was considered. A small number of pattern coins were produced by the Royal Mint for testing, with a similar heptagonal...

The 1814 platinum half dollar (J-44) was a United States pattern coin with a face value of fifty cents. Its design was identical to the Capped Bust half...

valuable. Edward VIII's short reign is only represented by a single pattern coin, dated 1937. That year, a new obverse design by Humphrey Paget which...

but this issue never entered circulation, instead being considered a pattern coin. In the following century and a half, it was most often issued to mark...

is an American pattern coin produced by the United States Mint in 1792. As a precursor to the large cent it was one of the first coins of the United States...

Royal Mint produced two patterns for a quarter sovereign for circulation, with one denominated as five shillings. These coins never went into production...

The 1942 experimental cents were pattern coins struck by the United States Mint to test alternative compositions for the penny. After the outbreak of...

five-cent coin, commonly called a nickel, is a coin worth five cents or one-twentieth of a Canadian dollar. It was patterned on the corresponding coin in the...