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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3351369, member: 57463"]Thanks! I was thinking of such control marks on Medieval coins. It is one thing to have your name on the front page of a scandal, but another to have your hands cut off or your eyes put out, so, Mint control marks were important to everyone. I have placed several reviews of Marshall Faintich's <i>Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and Medieval Coins.</i> I think that some of the stars, etc., were intended as controls.</p><p><br /></p><p>See the paper by Joan Clarke Murray that I referenced at the top. </p><p><a href="https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1971_BNJ_40_8.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1971_BNJ_40_8.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital BNJ/pdfs/1971_BNJ_40_8.pdf</a></p><p>She used Gothic versus Roman lettering, three-lis and five-lis crowns, and other differences to sequence the groats and unicorns. At root, perhaps some or all of these are just random variations in craftsmanship, but I think not. The fact that they lent themselves to decoding by a cryptographer indicates that some to many if not all were intentional.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3351369, member: 57463"]Thanks! I was thinking of such control marks on Medieval coins. It is one thing to have your name on the front page of a scandal, but another to have your hands cut off or your eyes put out, so, Mint control marks were important to everyone. I have placed several reviews of Marshall Faintich's [I]Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and Medieval Coins.[/I] I think that some of the stars, etc., were intended as controls. See the paper by Joan Clarke Murray that I referenced at the top. [URL='https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1971_BNJ_40_8.pdf']https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital BNJ/pdfs/1971_BNJ_40_8.pdf[/URL] She used Gothic versus Roman lettering, three-lis and five-lis crowns, and other differences to sequence the groats and unicorns. At root, perhaps some or all of these are just random variations in craftsmanship, but I think not. The fact that they lent themselves to decoding by a cryptographer indicates that some to many if not all were intentional.[/QUOTE]
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