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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1179729, member: 66&quot;]I think they are interesting, but I don&#039;t consider them to be true patterns since they may not have been struck by the Mint.&nbsp; they loaned the dies out to other firms who were doing testing on different alloys or producing pieces to test vending equipment etc.&nbsp; In some cases I believe the were mis-used by these outside firms to create fantasys.&nbsp; For example the Mint has said that no outside testing was done in 82 on the Cu plated cents yet there are pieces using these dies on Cu plated cent blanks and not dime sized dies which the mint had produced.&nbsp; And a couple of them are off-centers.&nbsp; Not likely something the Mint would produce, but definitely something that might be made on a whim by an outside firm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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