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Commemorative item differing from a coin in neither being made to a recognized coinage weight standard nor intended to circulate. Some pieces are of ambiguous status; herein, this remark applies most of all to the Pitt, Rhode Island, and certain Washingtons. Decision to list them among coins has come less from tradition than from recognition that many in fact did circulate and some were struck to known weight standards.
- Breen Encyclopedia