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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 10261862, member: 5833"]Good points, both. I used to be more on top of this. Wrote a good guide to Egyptian marks for eBay, back when they solicited such things. Then they up & killed them all, in favor of more buying guide type things.</p><p><br /></p><p>When it comes to the zeroes (dots) in fineness marks, I have seen variations, including a dot between the 'legs' of the lambda shape of an 8 and piled one on top of the other, like a colon mark : .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 10261862, member: 5833"]Good points, both. I used to be more on top of this. Wrote a good guide to Egyptian marks for eBay, back when they solicited such things. Then they up & killed them all, in favor of more buying guide type things. When it comes to the zeroes (dots) in fineness marks, I have seen variations, including a dot between the 'legs' of the lambda shape of an 8 and piled one on top of the other, like a colon mark : .[/QUOTE]
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