Here is a lot of pattern "coins" that I bought. They are suprising not that expensive, all of them well under 20 dollars each. Turns out they can be very affordable.
That one looks like an ID tag. Do you have any idea of the mintages for these? They're very nice, especially the copper-nickel/silver on in the cellophane.
TheBigH, I have got no idea about the mintage of the Chilean pattern coins. However about the Armenian ones, they seem to be a mintage of 2000 each. I'm still looking for the nickel-copper unc (not proof) version.
Wow, that's a really low mintage for $20. The prices you can get world coins for compared to U.S. coins is amazing.
I wonder with the Armenian coins though, are they patterns or fantasies? Sometimes the line blurs a bit with some of the ex-USSR countries, I know with Ukraine for awhile there were different entities creating all sorts of "proposed" coins - and occasionally some of them slipped into circulation - I got a 25 kopek in change this summer that appears to be a pattern. It can be sort of akin to the Euro coins from countries like Latvija and Great Britain. Sometimes they can be uncomfortably close to the authentic type coinage.
