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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2864821, member: 74282"]Actually CNG has digitized most of their printed sales that aren't accessible via their website and they can be found at <a href="http://issuu.com/cngcoins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://issuu.com/cngcoins" rel="nofollow">issuu.com/cngcoins</a>. They were kind enough to have OCR done on them as well, as opposed to simply scanning them in, so it is possible to search each one individually as you browse it or using Google, you can search them en masse for Pescennius Niger by using a query of the following format:</p><p><br /></p><p>site:issuu.com/cngcoins pescennius</p><p><br /></p><p>I frequently use it to search for coins by Crawford number as well, for instance the following search brings up a few examples of the corn-ear semuncia from Sicily:</p><p><br /></p><p>site:issuu.com/cngcoins "crawford 42/5"</p><p><br /></p><p>The OCR is imperfect and occasionally a punctuation mark will get interpreted as a letter or spaces will be inserted or deleted making searches miss results but overall it works well for the kind of research I've used it for.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2864821, member: 74282"]Actually CNG has digitized most of their printed sales that aren't accessible via their website and they can be found at [URL='http://issuu.com/cngcoins']issuu.com/cngcoins[/URL]. They were kind enough to have OCR done on them as well, as opposed to simply scanning them in, so it is possible to search each one individually as you browse it or using Google, you can search them en masse for Pescennius Niger by using a query of the following format: site:issuu.com/cngcoins pescennius I frequently use it to search for coins by Crawford number as well, for instance the following search brings up a few examples of the corn-ear semuncia from Sicily: site:issuu.com/cngcoins "crawford 42/5" The OCR is imperfect and occasionally a punctuation mark will get interpreted as a letter or spaces will be inserted or deleted making searches miss results but overall it works well for the kind of research I've used it for.[/QUOTE]
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