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Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy
I have an antique dealer here who writes their four letter dealer code and a price on every piece of paper. They write on tobacco cards, postcards, exhibit cards, etc. I have asked them to stop doing that because they are ruining items and they just don’t seem to care. The funny thing is their prices are so high that they could certainly afford penny sleeves and a price sticker.
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Dealers of every type do that for a reason. They find a 10 letter word where every letter is different. Each letter is 0-9. They use the letters to remember how much they paid for the item. A paper dealer may pick the word parchments. Therefore
P - 0
A - 1
R - 2
C - 3
H - 4
M - 5
E - 6
N - 7
T - 8
S - 9
If he paid $70 dollars for an items he would mark the back XXNP. This tells him how much he paid for the item with the X's being place holders. He could also use 2 numbers and 2 letters i.e. 15NM. This would tell him he purchased it in 2015 and paid $75 for it.