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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2657671, member: 19463&quot;]Those who want a code may like the old letter substitution code trick.&nbsp; For those not familiar with the idea:</p><p>Select a ten letter word that is easy for you to remember and has no repeating letters.&nbsp; The link below has a few thousand suggestions but I suggest you pick one you can spell and remember. </p><p><a href="https://www.morewords.com/unique-letters/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.morewords.com/unique-letters/" rel="nofollow">https://www.morewords.com/unique-letters/</a></p><p>Since the list is divided by first letter, I&#039;ll use D as an example:</p><p><a href="https://www.morewords.com/unique-letters/10d/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.morewords.com/unique-letters/10d/" rel="nofollow">https://www.morewords.com/unique-letters/10d/</a></p><p>Of the 63 suggestions I&#039;ll select discourage for this explanation. </p><p>D&nbsp; I&nbsp; S&nbsp; C&nbsp; O&nbsp; U&nbsp; R&nbsp; A&nbsp; G&nbsp; E</p><p>1&nbsp; 2&nbsp; 3&nbsp; 4&nbsp; 5&nbsp; 6&nbsp;&nbsp; 7&nbsp; 8&nbsp; 9&nbsp; *</p><p><br /></p><p>The original form of this used the last letter E as a 0 but I prefer to use E for something else and use all the other 16 letters to mean 0 in my codes.&nbsp; E will mean &quot;hundred&quot;.&nbsp; I always use four letter codes so a cheap coin will record cents while an expensive one will be rounded off.&nbsp; For example a coin costing $76.30 will code RUST with the T being insignificant.&nbsp; RUSK would be the same.&nbsp; A coin costing $1250 would code DIEO DI being 12 then E means &#039;say hundred&#039; followed by O for the 500 losing the last digits.&nbsp; If rounding bothers you and you buy many expensive coins you could select your code word from the 11 letter list and have a letter that means &quot;thousand&quot;.&nbsp; After a little use, you get to know your word/letter substitutions so looking at READ means $781 without having to think about it too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you fear someone like me might break your code, you could always throw in a twist like coding numbers right to left so $781 would be DAER or having more than one letter to mean &quot;hundred&quot; interchangeably.&nbsp; Two shorter words together that add up to the desired number but don&#039;t share letters between them works, too.&nbsp; BYTE CORDIAL works but only for the computer friendly user.&nbsp; Just don&#039;t make it so complex that you can&#039;t read it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was shown this trick by an elderly collector back in the 1960&#039;s and in his memory I still use his code word which for some reason he shared with me.&nbsp; Back then, selecting a cool code word was a lot harder since we did not have a list online with all those non repeating letter words.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you choose to shop for a word in the list you might find one especially suitable for you.&nbsp; For example a physician might choose the 11 letter HYPODERMICS which makes C &quot;hundred&quot; and S &quot;thousand&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can not emphasize too strongly the need to pick a &#039;good&#039; word that you can spell and remember.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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