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Were Roman Numbers different back in the Shaker days?
This is trivial stuff, but I've been making a few Shaker wall clocks and
downloaded a clockface with Roman numerals. Where I went to school, the number (4) was IV. However on the clockface I have it is IIII. Thinking it must just be wrong on this particular face, I checked a couple of photos of clocks at the Hancock Shaker Village and they are also IIII for (4). Did I learn this wrong or something - I doubt the Romans changed it in the past 200 years. Don |
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