Some coin catalogues indicate a mintage spread across several sub-types with the total number in the first line, then “Inc. Ab.” or similar to indicate that the mintage of the other sub-types is included above. It would be useful to have something like this available in Numista for both coins and notes. Is this technically feasible?
Former Numista referee for banknotes from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Saint Helena.
Using any positional wording could be difficult depending on the sorting.
I wanted some time ago to link years somehow together but there are also circumstances were different years not contained in that would fall between these linked years when sorted how Numista sorts year lines and would look quite strange if changed.
Yes, there will be occassions where other yearlines need linking to, not just the one immediately above. Perhaps the key word here is “link”? Can we think of a way of including links between yearlines? The only alternative is to state explicitly in the comments which yearlines share a mintage. I'd encourage referees to look at that in cases where it's clear.
Former Numista referee for banknotes from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Saint Helena.