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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Randy Abercrombie, post: 4655273, member: 92655&quot;]I have Jason&#039;s coin calendar beside my desk. This month&#039;s feature coin is the 1873 pattern trade dollar. I can&#039;t stop looking at this design. It strikes me as both odd and riveting at the same time...... So today I have been using Google to attempt to find out something of the design. I must be searching incorrectly because all I can seem to come up with is auction/sales information on the piece. So what is the story? I am sure that in 1873 several designs were proposed and I must assume this is one of them. There must have been a number of them struck because they have quite an auction history. Why would the mint strike so many of a pattern design? Perhaps so the design could be viewed by a number of decision makers?..... Please fill in the gaps that I can&#039;t seem to find with Google please.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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