OverStrike control character

[Andrew West]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 14:03, James Kass via Unicode
<unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>
> computer era.  It wouldn't surprise if epigraphic conventions also
> predate computers.  People tend to stick with their conventions.  If the
> overstrike feature became available in plain-text, I'd expect the coin
> catalogs to keep spelling things out for both clarity and consistency.

No-one would ever typographical overstrike one character with another
in a coin catalog because it would be difficult to read or even
illegible, and impossible to know if it meant "7 overstruck with 8" or
"8 overstruck with 7".

Andrew