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I am looking for a command to produce the letter $ \phi $ in such a beautiful, old style as the picture attached below.

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XIII
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    Welcome to TeX.SE. Please tell us which TeX program -- pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, or maybe something else? -- you employ to compile your LaTeX document. – Mico Jan 20 '20 at 10:30
  • Thank you. I am using pdfTex. – XIII Jan 20 '20 at 10:32
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    Isn't \varphi what you want? – Bernard Jan 20 '20 at 10:32
  • Found \varphi too using http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html – Sango Jan 20 '20 at 10:34
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    or \upvarphi from upgreek? You could easily find any symbol using http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html – Elad Den Jan 20 '20 at 10:34
  • @Bernard No. it is not \varphi ! I am looking for a command (say, for example \mathscr) to produce this style, not a usual \phi or \varphi. – XIII Jan 20 '20 at 10:35
  • @EladDen It is really similar to \upvarphi, but I think they are not the same. – XIII Jan 20 '20 at 10:37
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    There's also \textphi from textgreek. basically I think you need a specific greek font that would look like this... – Elad Den Jan 20 '20 at 10:40
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    check this out https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/487710/a-whole-list-of-math-fonts-for-greek-letters-in-latex – Elad Den Jan 20 '20 at 10:43
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    it is a varphi, so the only question is what font is being used. Where did you get the picture you show? If you have that as pdf you can check exactly which fonts it is using using pdffonts utility or the font menu of your viewer. – David Carlisle Jan 20 '20 at 11:13
  • https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/69908/197451 – js bibra Jan 20 '20 at 11:56
  • What is the source of the image? – Sebastiano Jan 20 '20 at 13:23
  • @DavidCarlisle it is taken from this paper DOI: 10.2307/2006966 I were not good to find font from the pdf file! – XIII Jan 21 '20 at 15:43
  • @Sebastiano I mentioned the paper which is the source of the image. Another paper which used this font, and is available for free is 10.1007/BF02392215, for example in the page 146 – XIII Jan 21 '20 at 15:45
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    the pdf isn't generally available I think but if you have it, simply run the pdffonts command on it or use acrobat reader font menu and get a list of all the fonts in the document. – David Carlisle Jan 21 '20 at 16:57
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    Correction, I got the file from jstor, but there are no digital fonts there it is just a scan of a paper copy of the Annals of Mathematics. so not useful for getting the fonts, also the exact same font may not be available digitally. – David Carlisle Jan 21 '20 at 20:20
  • @DavidCarlisle thanks a lot for your time and concern. – XIII Jan 22 '20 at 10:53

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