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Re-Striking Pattern And Unrealized Coins As NCLT

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Recently I came across this amazing Latvian gold commemorative from 2008. It easily won the Coin of the Year award and now I think I will stop at nothing to get one - the design is a perfect image of quiet, reserved dignity. It seems like the perfect foil to the loud American gold coins of the era, with their rays and stars and eagles and shields and blaring what-have-you.
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Anyway, the design for this coin was created in 1921 and was intended to be struck for circulation, but it never happened. Only a well-preserved plaster model remained (and somehow survived Soviet domination). So, in 2008, the model was turned into reality and these modern strikes were made. I have a question for you: if your country's mint restruck a series of historical patterns dated 2014 using the authentic original masters (assuming they were still around), would you be or or ? I think that making modern strikes of unrealized past coin designs is a really fun idea, as long as the date is modern and they cannot be passed off as real patterns, but I just wanted to hear the general opinion.
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I'd be if the US Mint struck some of those proposed patterns that were struck in the 1860's, 1870's and 1880's there are some beautiful designs to choose from.

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Canadian patterns don't compare to the beauty of that Latvian coin. But at the rate our mint cranks out new NCLT every month odds are a restrike of a pattern will appear.
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I like that coin, I like the idea, I would be in the group.
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That is a nice looking coin.

I like the idea, a re-strike of something that was never issued; or at least issued as it was originally designed. The 1999 Washington Death Bicentennial Five Dollar Gold is a good example (the original quarter dollar design).
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What an utterly beautiful coin. It appeals in the same sense of simplicity as Un Ultime Franc. I hope there are similar designs out there which can earn the same treatment as restrikes (or original strikes).
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I don't care for the Latvian piece.

A pattern or experimental piece is not a coin. As far as I am concerned an NCLT piece is not a coin either. So while they would be attractive I would have very little interest in such a piece.
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