Summer sextet
My nephew Ignatius has set me a problem. He has written down the digits 0 to 9 in ascending order, and has struck out zero and three other digits. He assigned the remaining six, in ascending order, to the letters P, A, Y, E, R and S, respectively. He then produced the sum shown, translated from six three-digit numbers, and their total.
To what number does PAYERS correspond?
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