I guess I'm the boy who cried "Help, Mint Researchers!"

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• keyman64 Posts: 15,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 9:07AM

  Reach out to RWB on the NGC Forums, if you have not already. He recently assisted with the transcription of another document...there's a thread over there about it.

  "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
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• Sunshine Rare Coins Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 9:54AM

  Did you check the Newman Numismatic Portal?

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,809 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 10:12AM

  Can we see the page in question?

  Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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• RKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 10:31AM

  @CaptHenway said:
  Can we see the page in question?

  @CaptHenway said:
  Can we see the page in question?

  Feb 9 1856 Snowden to RMT Hunter p6 Rg104Entry1Boxes41to45img1201to1600_0349.jpg 225.2K

  Rick Kay
  Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns
  
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• RKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 10:31AM

  @UltraHighRelief said:
  Did you check the Newman Numismatic Portal?

  Yes. Thanks.

  Rick Kay
  Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns
  
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• RKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 10:32AM

  @keyman64 said:
  Reach out to RWB on the NGC Forums, if you have not already. He recently assisted with the transcription of another document...there's a thread over there about it.

  Thanks.

  Rick Kay
  Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns
  
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• RKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 10:34AM

  The sentence in question reads, "The adaptation of the new metal aluminum to this object is also under consideration and the [​illegible line​] relative to it."

  Rick Kay
  Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns
  
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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,809 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 10:53AM

  Sorry, I got nothing. Best try Roger Burdette.

  Do you have an image of the back side of the document? Sometimes the file clerk's short recap of the subject of the document (for his possible use later in finding a particular letter that the boss man wants) is illuminating.

  Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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• messydesk Posts: 20,338 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 11:07AM

  Good luck. The back side may also have bleed-through of the ink that helps. This might require seeing the document in hand to decipher.

  John
  Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution

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• RKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 11:17AM

  @CaptHenway said:
  Sorry, I got nothing. Best try Roger Burdette.

  Do you have an image of the back side of the document? Sometimes the file clerk's short recap of the subject of the document (for his possible use later in finding a particular letter that the boss man wants) is illuminating.

  Unfortunately, that wasn't located with the document. Thanks.

  Rick Kay
  Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns
  
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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 11:25AM

  Wow... good luck with that document.... the line looks virtually obliterated. Cheers, RickO

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• RKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭

  September 11, 2020 12:10PM

  @ricko said:
  Wow... good luck with that document.... the line looks virtually obliterated. Cheers, RickO

  Thanks. I've got bits and pieces adding up to about 2 single spaced pages so far. The letter is 7 pages.

  Rick Kay
  Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns
  
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