The two coins (KM#59 & KM#72) are identical and are only separated by ruling authority. Now that it is possible to add multiple ruling authorities, could the pages be merged? Preferably, KM#59 should be moved to KM#72, as the latter has more complete information.
Master Coin Referee
Coin referee for CRI, GTM, HND, NIC, PAN, and SLV.
Revisor principal de monedas
Revisor de Numista para monedas de CRI, GTM, HND, NIC, PAN y SLV.
There are a huge number of other cases where coins have been split by KM purely on the basis of a change in monarch. I fully support this suggestion and recommend that we apply this logic across the rest of Numista.
Former Numista referee for banknotes from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Saint Helena.
Quote: "ceh2019"Is the history of the country (i.e., the change in monarch) or the history of coin catalogues that you think should be preserved?
Coin catalogs. Those coins have been registered with the "wrong" numbers by collectors, since they numbers were given. Who are we to say to the thousands of collectors, most not members of numista, that they should change their numbers. So leave it as is.
If they use KM numbers, nothing will change since we'll show the KM numbers against each date. We can't merge KM numbers. What we can do is put two KM numbers on the same page when they represent the same type of coin, together with an explanation for the different KM numbers. We're already doing that kind of thing in the banknote section, where Pick often splits according to printer, see here for an example. In this case, I imagine we'd put something like this in the comments section.
This type is split into two KM#:
KM#59 for coins issued during the reign of Carlos IV (1796-1807),
KM#72 for coins issued during the reign of Fernando VII (1808-1821).
Former Numista referee for banknotes from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Saint Helena.
These pages can definitely be merged, yes. And there are two ways of going about it:
1. If you un-verified one of the year-lists, I can send a request to merge all the relevant information; when those changes are accepted, I can then move the collections from one page to the other and delete the redundant page.
2. Because you are the referee, you could merge all the information yourself (meaning you will not have to unverify any of the year-lists). When that is done, I can move all collections to the page to keep and delete the redundant page.
Either way works for me.
When it comes to merging pages, it is the verified year-list that always gets in the way for me.
Status changed to Accepted(Sulfur, 2 Oct 2021, 18:41)
