Unusual Coins

I will try to post pictures of them sometime tomorrow night. I did not expect such a quick reply, but thanks. They sure look real and are old and worn. It has been suggested that they are patterns, but no size is ever mentioned.

You are correct.

I will try to send pictures late tonight. Someone went to a lot of trouble to make these. I thought I read , years ago, that patterns or dies are different sizes?

Thanks.

No, patterns are usually the size they expect to actually make the proposed coins - that way, the officials can see what it would look like as an actual coin. In many mints in the 20th century (I'm not sure about US mints), the first step in designing a new coin was to make a large plaster model of the design, which would then be copied on a reducing machine, but such pieces would be even larger than a silver dollar.

this is what the coins look like (none of them are the size of a silver dollar though). I know the dates are not the same but the design is the same. If you look here http://home.roadrunner.com/~kbr1315...sco7070.html you can see the relative size of the coins compared to others you may know the size of

Here is one compared to a silver dollar.

Sorry I have had trouble editing but I think I figured it out now. Had camera problems also. Here is the better picture to get an idea.