CHINA. Silver Dollar Pattern, Year 18 (1929). Hangchow Mint (Vienna Mint dies). NGC Unc Details--Surface Hairlines.

L&M-97; K-617; KM-Pn101; WS-0135-1; Wenchao-pg. 565, 912. VERY RARE and endlessly captivating, this type served as one of the prototypes for what would be the junk series a few years later. Deeply toned, with the noted surface hairlines mostly obfuscated by the color. In 1929, the Chinese Ministry of Finance ordered a new design for the then-proposed Dr. Sun Yat-sen Dollar. Patterns were submitted from the world's five leading mints: Italy, Japan, England, United States, and Austria. This represents the proposal from the mint in Vienna, engraved by Richard Placht. Upon completion, the various mints shipped the dies as well as samples of the new patterns to China. Many of the patterns were re-struck in China at the Hangchow Mint, which accounts for their availability today.

Estimate: $10000.00 - $15000.00

民國十八年孫中山像背三帆壹圓銀樣幣。奧地利版維也納雕刻，杭州造幣廠。

極罕 且誘人的版別，數年後發行的船洋初稿，熱衰程度歷久不衰。深色包漿，幣面的髮絲痕隱於包漿間。 1929年，中國財政部決定以孫中山肖像設計新國幣。續有世界著名的義大利、日本、英國、美國及奧地利五廠送樣幣。此枚代表奧地利造幣廠的設計， 由Richard Placht雕刻。樣稿完成後，各國將模具及少數樣幣運至中國。很多樣幣由杭州造幣廠重鑄，存世的亦多來自於此。