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The E-Sylum: Volume 5, Number 38, September 22, 2002, Article 14
KRAUSE DESIGNATIONS
Jan Lingen of the Netherlands responded to Kavan
Ratnatunga's questions about essais and Krause not having
definitions for words used in their catalogs:"Essai" is French for pattern or trial
"Prova" is Italian and has the same meaning
To complete it further in German it is "Probe"; in
Spanish "prueba" In French sometimes also "preuve"
is used. Alternative expressions in Italian are also
"saggio" or "disegno"To me, "off-metal strikes" are coins in a different metal
than the official circulation coin. Patterns and trials could
be in different metals, mostly they are so that they can't
be mistaken from the circulation coins.Krause has to depend on many people from different
countries. For the Dutch Encyclopedia of coins and paper
money, we made a list of Numismatic terms in Dutch,
English, German, French, Italian & Spanish. I asked
acquaintances from these countries to go through this list
and you may be surprised that different people give
different expressions for the same term. Even in certain
numismatic terms in different languages it is not
"black/white" either. So I am not surprised that such
things do appear in Krause."Howard A. Daniel III adds: "Krause cannot put everything
in its catalogs that are requested and/or needed by numismatists
and others because the volumes would be twice their current
sizes and priced too high for most collectors to purchase and/
or handle. So they have produced some specialty books, to
include a numismatic dictionary.I am on the road again as I write this, but my memory of the
French Southeast Asian pieces has essai as an equivalent to
proof in the U.S. And the French used to make 1004 of a
coin in Essai (normal coin thickness in the original metal) and
104 Essai Piefort (double thickness in the original metal).I do not know if those numbers are continued today in the
modern issues, and I do not know if essai has been
expanded into including many modern strikes."- 2002-09-22
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