Definition

• called in French Monnaies d'- essai, and in German Probemunzen. are trial pieces, the object of which is to test the die and note the details of the design. They are frequently made of a different thickness and in other metals than the coins subsequently to be struck from the same die. See Piefort.

Source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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