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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 5380999, member: 83845"]Really interesting coins [USER=87404]@Justin Lee[/USER] ! The writing on the first strikes me as very practiced calligraphy of the type I usually associate with 19th century writing. </p><p><br /></p><p>I’m pretty confident in the first character and last 4 characters as 5?1873. I wonder if the last 4 digits could be a year. Museums often seem to catalog by sequential number for that year followed by the year it was added. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am also curious if the “?” might not even be a number. Perhaps a symbol or archaic letter form. We don’t use the “long s” anymore but when written it is routinely shown higher than the surrounding text just as the mystery digit. I imagine other letters could have been as well in old calligraphy. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thus it could be something like “5th coin added to “?” sub-collection in the year 1873.” All just guess work of course. I hope you eventually find out about it. It’s pretty cool.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1230510[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 5380999, member: 83845"]Really interesting coins [USER=87404]@Justin Lee[/USER] ! The writing on the first strikes me as very practiced calligraphy of the type I usually associate with 19th century writing. I’m pretty confident in the first character and last 4 characters as 5?1873. I wonder if the last 4 digits could be a year. Museums often seem to catalog by sequential number for that year followed by the year it was added. I am also curious if the “?” might not even be a number. Perhaps a symbol or archaic letter form. We don’t use the “long s” anymore but when written it is routinely shown higher than the surrounding text just as the mystery digit. I imagine other letters could have been as well in old calligraphy. Thus it could be something like “5th coin added to “?” sub-collection in the year 1873.” All just guess work of course. I hope you eventually find out about it. It’s pretty cool. [ATTACH=full]1230510[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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