Trial strikes from the Casa de Moneda de Chile were produced as internal approval pieces before a new denomination entered full production, circulated only among mint officials and treasury authorities for sign-off. Whether this particular brass trial preceded the aluminum-bronze circulating issue is the detail that separates a transitional artifact from a minting curiosity.
Trial strikes from the Casa de Moneda de Chile were produced as internal approval pieces before a new denomination entered full production, circulated only among mint officials and treasury authorities for sign-off. Whether this particular brass trial preceded the aluminum-bronze circulating issue is the detail that separates a transitional artifact from a minting curiosity.