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icsoccer
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I am working on a collection with unusually long codes. I have not worried about what he paid for the items…but curiosity is getting to me.
The items were collected form the 60's into the early 70's.
CODE for this item:
2GNVXITRUMPDBCF
Full disclosure…this was on a bank note….just saying there are some talented people here….
His notation of what the item is and reference numbers were correct.
TIA,
He had no value listed. Current value is $6.
Republic De Guinea Ecuatorial
100 Pesetas
Note dated Oct 12, 1969
El Banco de mexico 10 Pesos 1967 code: 2VLWURTHYIFC
Philippines $10 note series 1937 code: 2KNVBCFPRT
Scanning a bunch: they all start with two. I do not see any with repeated letters in the code???
The items were collected form the 60's into the early 70's.
CODE for this item:
2GNVXITRUMPDBCF
Full disclosure…this was on a bank note….just saying there are some talented people here….
His notation of what the item is and reference numbers were correct.
TIA,
He had no value listed. Current value is $6.
Republic De Guinea Ecuatorial
100 Pesetas
Note dated Oct 12, 1969
El Banco de mexico 10 Pesos 1967 code: 2VLWURTHYIFC
Philippines $10 note series 1937 code: 2KNVBCFPRT
Scanning a bunch: they all start with two. I do not see any with repeated letters in the code???
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With the length of the code string, I find it hard to not think much info like this is part of the encoded data. BTW, the two code strings given so far are not the same length.
If this is of any help I'd be surprised. .
Also what type of bank note?
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Dated Nov 20th, 1971
code:
2KSNCHURPITYE
<< <i>Rock of Gibraltar 1 Pound Note
Dated Nov 20th, 1971
code:
2KSNCHURPITYE >>
Could he be using words as filler in the middle of a cost and a minimum asking price?
This is how the boys and girls at Bletchley did it. OK, Alan Turing might have helped a leetle bit.
Steve
require as many examples as possible. If there is a pattern, it might be noticeable.
If the individual incorporated any personal/public reference (like the Beale treasure papers),
it would probably negate any such perceived pattern.
Perhaps my thinking fell in line with his in some format.
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<< <i>I used to use the word, B L A C K S T O N E as each letter represented a number (a word with ten letters, none that repeat).
Perhaps my thinking fell in line with his in some format. >>
So your code is BLACKSTONE.
Want to avoid getting the code broken by repetition? Use some notation that masks 555 such as KFD (literal "55") or KDF - Duplicate previous number "5" to mask the easy decoding of a repetition. 1, 2 and 5 seem the most frequent number to come up.
Imbedded length descriptor followed by text.
N (null, any letter not in the code).
Length code - K for 3 digits following
N-N-A-K-F-D-B-K-B-J-L-K
Null null 3 digits "555 null-null-null-null-null" etc ad nauseum What, at the end of the string, looks like characters of your substitution code are actually nulls because the length descriptor.
N-C-B-L-K-E-B-L-K-L-K-B
null 4 digits "1250"-null-null- etc The last six characters in the string are (maybe not so coincidentally) part of your base code, but have become nulls based on the length descriptor
I know a dealer who does something slightly different but his length descriptor and all other characters are in reverse order.
If I mess up my coding and decoding blame my clumsiness and need to get to the PO with Heritage's check.
The examples may be flawed (see above) but the principle (adapted from security techniques for transmission of high-speed bi-synchronous variable length data strings) is actually rather primitive and easily encoded in your wetware after an hour of your own time coding and decoding your own code in writing
For Ricko - Maybe this could be called deconstruction of an encoded data string, but (to me) it's just a less difficult notation to decode Could be some semantical differentiation, but, perhaps, closer to an semiotic equivalency.
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G = 7th letter, 2G = 2007?
K = 11th letter, 2K = 2011?
More examples would help us - the human brain looks for patterns in anything so we can probably make these two codes into something illogical which would fit the mind's odd interpretation of the world.
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<< <i>I used to use the word, B L A C K S T O N E as each letter represented a number (a word with ten letters, none that repeat).
Perhaps my thinking fell in line with his in some format. >>
So your code is BLACKSTONE.
Want to avoid getting the code broken by repetition? Use some notation that masks 555 such as KFD (literal "55") or KDF - Duplicate previous number "5" to mask the easy decoding of a repetition. 1, 2 and 5 seem the most frequent number to come up.
Imbedded length descriptor followed by text.
N (null, any letter not in the code).
Length code - K for 3 digits following
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<< <i>For Ricko - Maybe this could be called deconstruction of an encoded data string, but (to me) it's just a less difficult notation to decode Could be some semantical differentiation, but, perhaps, closer to an semiotic equivalency.
CJ makes my head hurt - and I've been a software professional for 27 years. Pretty soon he is going to start talking in opcodes.
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<< <i>For Ricko - Maybe this could be called deconstruction of an encoded data string, but (to me) it's just a less difficult notation to decode Could be some semantical differentiation, but, perhaps, closer to an semiotic equivalency.
CJ makes my head hurt - and I've been a software professional for 27 years. Pretty soon he is going to start talking in opcodes. >>
I wrote a full-fledged x86 CPU emulator a couple years ago. I saw the world in hex for months after.
I use the Fibonacci series (backwards but only going down from to 8) in some of my passwords.
Hell, I was working for ATT on 360/40's OS Release 8.0 internals.. We were one of 7 beta sites in the country in 1967. Did a lot of work on the software for the first 2780 bi-synch adapters, but the hardware engineers would sometimes change the 2780 micro-code at night and kaplooie went the entire system. Then I wrote about 20,000 lines of code modifying HASP and CICS.
Whichever came first, geeks or dweebs, I was one. But no pocket protector, no slide rule
(I also walked ten miles through the snow to school every day, and it was uphill both ways.)
If any acronyms ring a bell, you are an dinosaur.
Then I discovered Mercury dimes.
And now I'm a multi-disciplinary dinosaur.
Betcha I can still program in BAL...
My first code was TRUECOINS. Post 1983 it was FASTMONEY. Post 1999 it was PLAYTHINGS. Draw your own conclusions. They will be accurate.
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