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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1750953, member: 66&quot;]Saw them at the ANA show in Chicago in 2011.&nbsp; They will probably be back in 2014 and 2015 as well.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>vlaha, wrong Morris.&nbsp; <font size="2"><font face="arial"><span style="color: #292929">Gouverneur Morris came up with the plan and had the patterns created.&nbsp; And if you are creating an entire new system, what would be so surprising to create patterns to illustrate it.&nbsp; We created patterns for the US coins, 1792 half disme and disme, the silver center cent, the Birch cent, the copper 1794 half dollar and dollar, tThe 1856 FE cent was a pattern, the 1864 small moot proof 2 cent was a pattern the proof 1866 shield nickels are patterns,&nbsp; Jarvis created a pattern for the Fugio,&nbsp; In 1967 when New Zealand switched to the decimal system they created plastic &quot;coins&quot; to be used to train tellers to recognize the new coins and become familiar with handling and counting in the new system.&nbsp; They also made &quot;practice sets&quot; of Euro coins available in 2001 so people could get used to them before the went active in 2002.</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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