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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1257279, member: 112&quot;]I believe trial strike would be more accurate. Siggi is using the word specimen to mean example in this case, and I believe that is what he is trying to tell you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those coins are not specimens and they are not patterns. They are trial strikes. What that means is that the mint was testing the design to see how it strike up - to see if it was a viable design. </p><p><br /></p><p>These trial strikes occur before the design is ever given final approval. That is because when you design a coin you have to make sure that there will be enough metal in the planchet to fill all portions of the design - without having to use excess pressure. This ensures that the production dies will last and not break apart after only a few thousand strikes. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for NGC refusing to certify/authenticate them - I don&#039;t blame them. Genuine trial strikes, from any mint, are quite rare. And because of their very nature they are almost impossible to authenticate. And short of a letter directly from the mint verifying them, or provenance traced directly to and verified by the mint, you are not going to get a TPG to slab and label a coin as a trial strike. It just aint gonna happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - But Siggi, those coins are quite a feather in your cap <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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