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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 208166, member: 4781&quot;]There are people that specifically collect &quot;Concept Dollars&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; By definition, these are pieces that were produced with the intent to show &quot;what if ?&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; These pieces answer the question: what might a coin of a certain size, composition, denomination, and design actually look like in hand ?&nbsp;&nbsp; In other words, privately-minted patterns that were proposed or presented to the government as examples of potential legal-tender coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>While the collector base for these is somewhat small, typical mintages for them are low (similar to other pattern coins).&nbsp; I&#039;ve actually produced several different Concept Dollars.&nbsp;&nbsp; A design I did was one of seven finalists in the official US Mint design competition for the reverse of the Sacagawea Dollar.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve minted various prototypes using that design.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mintages on the ones I produced range from 9 to 900 of each type.</p><p>Most of mine have mintages less than 500.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mike Wallace has put together an excellent web site devoted to small dollars (including concept dollars):</p><p><a href="http://www.smalldollars.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.smalldollars.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.smalldollars.com</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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