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• Misattributed, Misattribution.  An error of attribution, authentication or cataloging; misclassifying a numismatic item. The error is usually due to inexperience of the cataloger, who probably had not seen a similar specimen before. Accurate attribution requires wide knowledge, both of numismatics, technical aspects of production, plus a knowledge of history, language, and the period of the piece being cataloged. Misattribution is uncalled for and a disservice to the reader, client, owner, estate, auction house, museum or whomever the attribution is prepared for. See attribution, cataloging.
      
  [[ Photo Medal & Clipping Comparette C4 {1912} 376:271 ]]
  Example of Misattribution                                                             ` Cataloging the United States coin and medal
  collection was ot easy for Thomas Lewis Comparette,
  curator, while the collection wa still at the U.S.
  Mint in Philadelphia (in 1926 it was transferre
  to the Smithsonian). His published catalog of 1912
  contained many errors.
  Perhaps the worst example is attributing the
  Washington Declaration of Independence Medal (Baker  
  53) to the Signing Centennial of 1876. He attributed 
  it correctly to George Washington and the scene is   
  the Signing of the Declaration of Independence and   
  the artist was Wright – all because these appear on 
  the medal. But the date, the era, was wrong. It was   
  created a quarter century before 1876 because the    
  engraver, Charles Cushing Wright, had died in 1854!  

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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