Specimen Coins

1792 Silver Center Cent, without plug (J1-A), SP63RB (PCGS grade) - $1,600,000. There is one known example of the silver center cent that is missing the silver insert.

 

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1792 1C silver center pattern Special Strike, J-1

SP67BN PCGS

 

• 1792 1C J-2
• 1792 10C J-10
• 1792 10C J-11
• 1792 25C J-12
• 1792 25C J-13

Also Pattern and Specimen

 

• 1942 1C J-2051 Bronze
• 1942 1C J-2052 Brass
• 1942 1C J-2053 Zinc
• 1942 1C J-2054 Zinc Coated Steel
• 1942 1C J-2055 Manganese
• 1942 1C J-2056 White Metal
• 1942 1C J-2057 Aluminum
• 1942 1C J-2058 Lead
• 1942 1C J-2059 Black Plastic
• 1942 1C J-2060 Brown Plastic
• 1942 1C J-2061 Grey
• 1942 1C J-2062 Red
• 1942 1C J-2063 Tan
• 1942 1C J-2064 Light Yellow
• 1942 1C J-2065 Transparent Amber
• 1942 1C J-2066 Red Fiber
• 1942 1C J-2067 Bakelite
• 1942 1C J-2068 Hard Rubber
• 1942 1C J-2069 Tempered Glass
• 1942 1C J-2079 Lincoln Aluminum
• 1942 1C J-2080 Lincoln Zinc Steel
• 1942 1C J-2081 Lincoln WM
• 1942 1C White Metal
• 1942 1C Plastic

Some more pattern specimens

 

• 1852 $10 Moffat, Wide Date
• 1854 $20 Kellogg
• 1860 $20 Clark Gruber
  

Territorial specimen pieces

• 1861 1C CSA Original
• 1861 50C CSA Original

Confederate specimens

• 1723 2Pence Rosa Americana, Silvered
• 1724/3 1P Rosa Am. DEI GRATIA Silv
• 1724 2Pence Rosa Amer, Pattern
• 1723. Farth Hibernia, Silver
• 1722 1/2 P Hibernia, Harp Left
• 1723 1/2 P Hibernia
• 1724 1/2 P Hibernia Dt Below
• (1724) Farth Hibernia Pattern, Orb Reverse
• 1767-A Sou
• 1783 C Nova Blunt Rays
• (1776) Medal Baker-49J Bronze
• (1776) Medal Washington Before Boston, Silver Restrike
• (1800) Medal Baker-81 Bronzed-Cu
• (c.1864) Medal GW-09-US1 Bronze

Colonial specimens, and medals

 

Got three of these.......

 

Really nice canadian specimen sets, but I should of really put us int he title. @bear32211, I am looking for US specimen coins

 

Now I am really confused !

 

• Kennedy
• 1966 SMS No "FG"
• 1966 SMS Doubled Die Obverse
• 1967 quintiple die obverse

 

Oh I know just wanted to give our northern friends some credit .

 

Oh, ok. Thanks anyway @bear32211

 

Patterns are struck for various reasons by a government or their agent. Sometimes it is as a proof of concept: will the medal,designs, or dies be the right combination to provide viable minting requirements.

A minting authority can choose to give some away to special dignitaries, or to the authorizing government office to make the
decision to authorize the funds to go into actual production.

I have attached a coin I found literally in a bag of several hundred
Chinese coins from cash to early republic. It's a bronze pattern, or as NGC titled it, specimen. It did go to auction.

Its a pattern/specimen of the famous design of the famous Sun Yat-sen silver dollar with the geese above the junk.

Sorry about the quality of the photo, I had one day to see it in person after it was slabbed, to take an image, hug it and love it and call it "George" before express mailing it back to the auction house that sold it.

I do collect Chinese cash coins as well as machine struck up to and including the Chinese Republic. I did a lot of due diligence on my own, and the auction house really worked hard. Only one was sold at auction in the previous ten years. It was fun to discover and pass onto another dedicated numismatist.

Keep on hunting, you never know what you will discover in numismatics.

 

Trust me... you don't want to know.

Let's just say the best of intentions, the worst of results....

 

2014 d SP dollar sacagawea
1821, 1829 and 1837 Bust Half Dollars as Specimens.

 

Okay, since no one else will ask or say it....

What purpose are you hoping to serve with the vast majority of this thread? There have been a couple very good and enlightening posts made, but they've been needlessly buried in what I can only assume you intended to be a list of such coins. As much as I respect and appreciate your efforts, you're accomplishing little by simply adding new ones in a fashion that makes absolutely no sense and forces the reader to have to wade through page after page of unpredictable posts that may or may not address what they're interested in or looking for.

Take offense if you will, but if you'd like your project and effort to have meaning as well as be of real use to the reader, please consider taking the time to present your info in a more helpful and useful manner.

 

Thanks for the point, @BooksB4Coins, but I think I may have found them all now

 

How would you know if you have them all? ...I guess now you will need to make a list of your list..

 

That is a really cool coin! I love the details.