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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 688940, member: 18157&quot;]I&#039;ve seen some pattern coins come up on eBay ad Heritage, but I&#039;ve never had enough money to actually own any of them. The ones I&#039;ve seen were used in the selection process for new coinage. A number of them would be minted to help lawmakers and Mint personnel choose a design or test materials. They were never intended for circulation (perhaps a pattern expert will correct those statements...but that&#039;s what I &quot;think&quot; I know about patterns).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Perhaps the Cherrios &quot;pattern&quot; reverse was only intended as a pattern and they used it because they had to get some coins out the door before design was finalized. My contention is that if that happened...and that die was used to strike coins <b>intended for circulation</b>, it is (by definition) no longer a pattern.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/patterns/pattern_coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/patterns/pattern_coins.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinfacts.com/patterns/pattern_coins.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">Events surrounding the 1916d Mercury dime is another fascinating topic. I have a really good article on that subject somewhere. I&#039;ll post when I find it. </font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">Please don&#039;t get me wrong...you have a very valuable coin. I would lock it away until the Sac dollars become really popular...it&#039;s the Key to the series! I think it&#039;s even more interesting/valuable as a circulating coin than as a non-circulating &quot;pattern&quot;.</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">It almost seems as though the Numismatic world is trying to marginalize this coin as some sort of accident/error and not acknowedge it as the true <b>&quot;must have&quot; key to the series</b>.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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