While working with my gold $1 I ran into two attribution codes for the same coin. This led me to thinking it would be nice to have all this info in one place. So if everyone could chime in with their particular knowledge, I'm willing to compile and post it. And, yes, I understand there may be multiple entries in one or more of the columns. Here's a tentative format. Any additions and corrections to the columns are certainly wanted. Right now I envision the final document type to be a spreadsheet, most likely Excel. CODE.....NAME........SOURCE..........USED WITH FS...Fifaz-Stanton...Cherrypickers...$1 Gold VP.................. NGC.............$1 Gold
While working up a tentative spreadsheet format I've already considered one minor addition. Something like AUTHOR or ORIGINATOR. And one major addition. Some attribution codes may only apply to one issue within a face value. For instance there may be a difference code for Lincoln cents than IHCs. In a period of 5 mintes this project has expanded considerably.
Here's some... CODE.....NAME.......................SOURCE.........USED WITH DDO Doubled Die Obverse Getting Your Two 2 Cent Pieces TDO Tripled Die Obverse Cents Worth &many others TPD Triple Punched Date by Kevin Flynn " CLO Clash Die Obverse (Page 15) " OD Overdate " " CLOR Dlash Die Obverse & Reverse " " DDR Doubled Die Reverse " " RPD Repunched Date " " QPD Quadruple Punched Date " " CLR Clash Die Reverse " " Also, from Cherrypickers' Guide by Bill Fivaz & JT Stanton, 5th Edition. How to Use section Page xiv has a good list as well. Well, that formating went out the window, but you get the idea of where I was headed.
There are hundred or so already defined in this thread over at the PCGS forums: http://forums.collectors.com/messag...ighlight_key=y&keyword1=acronym&keyword2=list
Ooooooo, this will be a good start. Thanks for the links. I'll cull out the the ones that pertain to my proposed database.
Seems everybody has left out all the good stuff. Fr.# - stands for Friedberg C.# stands for Ciani L.# - stands for Lafaurie Dy.# - stands for Duplessy Kr.# - stands for Krause G.# - stands for Gadoury Gy.# - stands for Gilboy D.# - stands for Davenport B.# - stands for Bachtell S.# - stands for Spink M.# - stands for Menzell De.# - stands for Delmonte Pa.# - stands for Paoletti AP# stands for A. Proctor Now many of these letters are often duplicated in their use with an entirely different author depending on the coin in question.
Essentially, what you want to do is make a bibliography, adding the attribution code at the end. Using a Chicago Manual of Style citation (the format commonly used by historians): Shore, Fred. Parthian Coins & History: Ten Dragons Against Rome. CNG: Quarryville, PA, 1993. Shore # Your task will be rather simple if you limit it to only US coins, a good library for those would take up only one bookcase! But if you expand it to world and ancient coins, it will rapidly become a very difficult quest. When I come upon a citation I don't recognize for an ancient or medieval coin, I check here: http://www.cngcoins.com/Bibliography.aspx Just enter the "code" in the search toolbar and fire away. Be sure to check the dropdown menu on the right! Failing that, you can always try to work with the ANS Library Database. If the code is the author's name, you can usually figure it out using this tool. http://data.numismatics.org/cgi-bin/libsearch
Kanga, Are you looking for catalog # attributions such as O- for Overton numbers or KM for Krause Mishlar, or abbriviations such as DDO for Doubled die Obverse?
When he first started this thread, and before he edited his first post, he was trying to find out what the attributions FS (Fifaz-Stanton) and VP (I have no idea) stood for.
VP stands for Variety Plus which is a service that NGC uses for the varieties they recognize during the grading process. For more information, visit the following link: http://www.ngccoin.com/VPcategories.aspx
