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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1889772, member: 39&quot;]In the First Republic (since the 1920s) such trial were made simply to see what a certain design would look like on a &quot;real&quot; coin. Many mints did and do that. However, between the mid-1960s and the end of the People&#039;s Republic in 1989/90, the mint produced lots of próba (trial) pieces. After all, collectors were willing to buy them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Mintages were relatively low but usually not &quot;super-low&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the <a href="http://coinsville.com/Coin-Catalog/Category/Eastern-Europe/Poland/People-S-Republic-Of-Poland-1945-1990/Test-Coins/a/y=1971/sort/0/page/1/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinsville.com/Coin-Catalog/Category/Eastern-Europe/Poland/People-S-Republic-Of-Poland-1945-1990/Test-Coins/a/y=1971/sort/0/page/1/" rel="nofollow">1971 próba issues</a>, including the FAO pieces. Some details you get by clicking on the image, others require a login. I think the Krause/SCWC has them too but would have to check that out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, today Switzerland does something similar: Of quite a few collector coins, the Swiss mint issues &quot;essai&quot; (trial) coins which are quite expensive. They are not or hardly different from the regular designs though ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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