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IDENTIFYING COINS BY INSCRIPTION FRAGMENTS Regarding Jeff Kelley's thorough sleuthing of the fragmentary text on Bill Miller's overstruck Civil War token, Bob Van Arsdell writes: This method of analysis was used to produce an earlier numismatic work - Séverin Icard's "Identification des Monnaies" in 1929. Icard's book helps you identify ancient coins using fragmentary legends - very helpful when half a coin's legend is off-flan. Thanks - this is an interesting and useful approach, one that computers today could handle well given a database of known coin legends. Bob sent the book images as well.
-Editor
  Jeff Rock and Julia Casey also worked on the puzzle via other routes. -Editor
Jeff Rock writes: How funny that mysteries get solved so quickly -- that baggage tag item had three sleuths working and Voila! Julia never ceases to amaze me with what she is able to find online, and coming up with an exact match image was pretty impressive! To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
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