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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3000355, member: 19463"]This sounds like a place for a price code as Valentinian said. I prefer using only four digits for any price and select a 9 letter word rather than 10 so all letters not in my word can be zeros. This worked well until I started buying coins over $99.99 so I picked a letter not in my code word to mean hundred. You might want one that means thousand (I don't need it but for example lets use x). For a code word, I suggest a compound word that splits 4-5 like 'copyright' making it easy to remember where 5 is. I'll use as an example w for hundred but if my selected word did not include it, I might use h for hundred. All letters not in copyright or w or x are zero. That makes a $10.50 coin CARL or CURE or CBRB equally well since the first and third letters are the only non zeros. $705 is GWAR and $200 is OWLS or anything else starting with OW. I force words where I can. Those with a few coins over $1000 could use COWP for $1234 rounding off the last digit to the nearest $10 to keep it to four letters. Using many different letters for zero makes it harder to see common letters and know what the zero is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3000355, member: 19463"]This sounds like a place for a price code as Valentinian said. I prefer using only four digits for any price and select a 9 letter word rather than 10 so all letters not in my word can be zeros. This worked well until I started buying coins over $99.99 so I picked a letter not in my code word to mean hundred. You might want one that means thousand (I don't need it but for example lets use x). For a code word, I suggest a compound word that splits 4-5 like 'copyright' making it easy to remember where 5 is. I'll use as an example w for hundred but if my selected word did not include it, I might use h for hundred. All letters not in copyright or w or x are zero. That makes a $10.50 coin CARL or CURE or CBRB equally well since the first and third letters are the only non zeros. $705 is GWAR and $200 is OWLS or anything else starting with OW. I force words where I can. Those with a few coins over $1000 could use COWP for $1234 rounding off the last digit to the nearest $10 to keep it to four letters. Using many different letters for zero makes it harder to see common letters and know what the zero is.[/QUOTE]
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