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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3061330, member: 56859&quot;]Another point is that even if starting a hundred years ago there had been a concerted and coordinated effort by all collectors and numismatists to document and create a census, it would still be a big mess today because scholarship often changes.&nbsp; Sometimes it&#039;s relatively minor (the mint city, perhaps) and sometimes it&#039;s major (the issuing entity, for example).&nbsp; Variable transliteration of cities and names is another obstacle.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes when I&#039;m searching archives for a particular type of coin I come away thinking it must be very rare, only to find later than I was using a slightly different spelling or otherwise had just missed the currently correct search terms.</p><p><br /></p><p>Too bad the ancient mint overseers didn&#039;t leave records <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Imagine how astonished they would be to see the degree of study and concern we have over their coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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