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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Black Friar, post: 3027578, member: 76221&quot;]Patterns are struck for various reasons by a government or their agent.&nbsp; Sometimes it is as a proof of concept: will the medal,designs, or dies be the right combination to provide viable minting requirements.</p><p><br /></p><p>A minting authority can choose to give some away to special dignitaries, or to the authorizing government office to make the</p><p>decision to authorize the funds to go into actual production.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have attached a coin I found literally in a bag of several hundred</p><p>Chinese coins from cash to early republic.&nbsp; It&#039;s a bronze pattern, or as NGC titled it, <i>specimen.&nbsp; </i>It did go to auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Its a pattern/specimen of the famous design of the famous Sun Yat-sen silver dollar with the geese above the junk.</p><p><br /></p><p>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 &quot;George&quot; before express mailing it back to the auction house that sold it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do collect Chinese cash coins as well as machine struck up to and including the Chinese Republic.&nbsp; I did a lot of due diligence on my own, and the auction house really worked hard.&nbsp; Only one was sold at auction in the previous ten years.&nbsp; It was fun to discover and pass onto another dedicated numismatist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep on hunting, you never know what you will discover in numismatics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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