Trial minting
With Probeprägung is both the process of coin stamping for test purposes and called the resulting product thereof.
Trial coins, also called trial coins or samples for short, are produced for different reasons. They can be used to test an embossing machine or to try out a new embossing process. Or they are minted in order to be able to present a draft for a new coin design in a clear way.
Mostly sample coins are again destroyed or in the archives of the Mint stored, but occasionally also sold to collectors. Because of their rarity, sample coins are sometimes very sought after by collectors. Some mints have therefore started to produce coins called samples specifically for collectors, often in much larger numbers than necessary or without any technical reasons. Examples of this are the numerous types of coins issued in Poland and Czechoslovakia with the inscription "Próba", many French and Monegasque coins and the commemorative coins that Swissmint has been adding "Essai" to since 1998. In addition to the French term Essai, the term pattern coins is common in English-speaking countries .
The coins from countries that do not belong to the European Monetary Union , which are misleadingly marketed as “ euro samples ”, are not actually trial mintings, but medals produced by private individuals .
See also : tee (numismatics)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Colin R. Bruce (Author), Thomas Michael: 2009 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000. Krause Publishing, 2008. pp. 1677-1687
- ↑ http://www.stempelglanz.info/archiv/01/stempelglanz-01-seite06-07.pdf