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Message:: [QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4355631, member: 93416"]Hello Doug DS > Of all the punchmarked coins that have been found, what percentage are identifiable to GH number by someone familiar with the series The majority. Let me explain. About 20 years ago I chanced upon an Afghan refugee who has a sack of encrusted and corroded pmcs. Maybe 10 KG? He said they were from the MZ II hoard. Given the dreadful situation that now exist I must stress at this point that I never owned any of these coins, but I did agree to borrow 1,000 from him, in exchange for cleaning and attributing them. I cleaned them and loaned them onwards to the BM for study, were Joe Cribb arranged for Elizabeth Errington to study them. She attributed 837 of them, despite the fact that due to extensive corrosion they were low about 10% of their weight. She also studied a different group of 854 coins which were only a little corroded. In that case she got slightly ambiguous results for 39 coins, but a total failure for only 3. So a failure like you own coin is actually rather unusual. DS > On the coins GH lists with five obverse punches numbered 1 through 5, were the punches applied in a consistent order? An interesting question and the answer seems to be no. There were five obverse punches applied, but Terry told me they they were picked up and then discarded for each coin in random order Rob T[/QUOTE]