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Cryptograms from the Chinese gold bars
For example, one of the bars has the following arrangement:
HLMTAHGBGFNIV
ZUQUPNZN ABRYCTUGVZXUPB
MVERZRLQDBHQ
GKJFHYXODIE UGMNCBXCFLDBEY
VIOHIKNNGUAB
HFXPCQYZVATXAWIZPVE
If you turn the bar around, the other end of the bar has the following lines, interspersed with lines of Chinese characters:
JKGFIJPMCWSAEK SKCDKJCDJCYQSZKTZJPXPWIRN MQOLCSJTLGAJOKBSSBOMUPCE FEWGDRHDDEEUMFFTEEMJXZR RHZVIYQIYSXVNQXQWIOVWPJO MQOLCSJTLGAJOKBSSBOMUPCE FEWGDRHDDEEUMFFTEEMJXZR SKCDKJCDJCYQSZKTZJPXPWIRN RHZVIYQIYSXVNQXQWIOVWPJO MQOLCSJTLGAJOKBSSBOMUPCE SKCDKJCDJCYQSZKTZJPXPWIRN
On another bar we find the following lines:
MQOLCSJTLGAJOKBSSBOMUPCE
FEWGDRHDDEEUMFFTEEMJXZR FEWGDRHDDEEUMFFTEEMJXZR
YQHUDTABGALLOWLS RHZVIYQIYSXVNQXQWIOVWPJO
VIOHIKNNGUAB HFXPCQYZVATXAWIZPVE
MVERZRLQDBHQ KOWVRSRKWTMLDH
ZUQUPNZN
VIOHIKNNGUAB
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Finally, on one bar we find the following arrangement:
UGMNCBXCFLDBEY VIOHIKNNGUAB
HFXPCQYZVATXAWIZPVE
YQHUDTABGALLOWLS
XLYPISNANIRUSFTFWMIY
KOWVRSRKWTMLDH
JKGFIJPMCWSAEK
ABRYCTUGVZXUPB
GKJFHYXODIE
RHZVIYQIYSXVNQXQWIOVWPJO ZUQUPNZN
SKCDKJCDJCYQSZKTZJPXPWIRN GKJFHYXODIE
MQOLCSJTLGAJOKBSSBOMUPCE
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Clearly some of these are significant because they are repeated. Here is a list of all of the known cryptograms. Some of the letters are hard to read so there may be inaccuracies.
SKCDKJCDJCYQSZKTZJPXPWIRN length 25 MQOLCSJTLGAJOKBSSBOMUPCE length 24 RHZVIYQIYSXVNQXQWIOVWPJO length 24 FEWGDRHDDEEUMFFTEEMJXZR length 23 XLYPISNANIRUSFTFWMIY length 20 HFXPCQYZVATXAWIZPVE length 19 YQHUDTABGALLOWLS length 16 UGMNCBXCFLDBEY length 14 ABRYCTUGVZXUPB length 14 JKGFIJPMCWSAEK length 14 KOWVRSRKWTMLDH length 14 HLMTAHGBGFNIV length 13 MVERZRLQDBHQ length 12 VIOHIKNNGUAB length 12 GKJFHYXODIE length 11 ZUQUPNZN length 8
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