1743 Coin

These are some coins that used both Roman numerals
and modern numerals (with Medieval "4" which looks
like a bowtie) in the same year.

 

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Here again the Medieval "4" is used. I am not familiar of a coin
that used "VIIII" as opposed to "IX" or "9".

 

Just a different "4" on these two.

 

This is absurd. Both my grade school and high school teachers insisted that 4 was represented as IV. How could they be wrong?

 

Post 1700's they are probably correct most of the time . Before that time what ever the level of education the die creator or the boss had. I learned a long time ago that my teachers and professors were not always right . And there is artistic license.

 

Notice that if you rotate the "bowtie" 4 counterclockwise a bit, it looks like a modern 4.

 

There was a vice principal at my high school who had a PhD in stupidity. Go figure!

Chris

 

He may have gotten his when PhD was an acronym for "post hole digger".

 

BS. Bull ×÷%#
MS More $!%÷
PhD Piled high and deep