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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2740312, member: 39&quot;]Fantasy is right; anybody can have such medals made. So the terms Essai, Pattern and Probe are somewhat misleading. I know that in the early years of the euro, some people would buy, for example, the Vatican themed thingies assuming they were official issues, or because the real coins were hard to get.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some more pieces like that: <a href="http://www.jezuss.nl/eu/euro-pattern.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jezuss.nl/eu/euro-pattern.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.jezuss.nl/eu/euro-pattern.htm</a> The ceros medals (see the &quot;Europ Ceros&quot; and &quot;Xeros Ceros&quot; categories) were made by some Swiss company, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of those are dated 2005 or 2006 - now why any collector would still buy such pieces I don&#039;t know. But if they were in a big lot - oh well, I hope it contained some interesting pieces as well. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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