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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;torontokuba, post: 2149836, member: 56793&quot;]I appreciate you bringing these up.</p><p><br /></p><p>The trial, essai, probe and pattern coins are part of a very real and legitimate area of numismatics. They requires plenty of cash, knowledge, patience and determination, when collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure I can identify several hundred truly rare pieces just from Poland, between 1949 - 1990. What better way to learn about coins, than to study how we arrived at the finished circulation product and what options were considered along the way?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.m4n.pl/monety/images/big/S1044.1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A lot more than 100, from just one country, only considering 1949-1990, all very rare, click each one to view photos and more details...</p><p><a href="http://www.m4n.pl/monety/016/index_r.xml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.m4n.pl/monety/016/index_r.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.m4n.pl/monety/016/index_r.xml</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I strongly doubt that the OP had these in mind, but, I would not discredit this portion of the modern field of numismatics, by grouping it with special issues, NCLTs or Modern Proofs.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the more expensive transactions, from the modern patterns, that I located, went for approx. US$4500.00, mintage of 5...</p><p><a href="http://wcn.pl/archive/49_0633?q=pr%C3%B3ba+prl&amp;sc=price&amp;sm=d" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wcn.pl/archive/49_0633?q=pr%C3%B3ba+prl&amp;sc=price&amp;sm=d" rel="nofollow">http://wcn.pl/archive/49_0633?q=próba+prl&amp;sc=price&amp;sm=d</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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