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Message:: [QUOTE="Amentia, post: 2811621, member: 78973"]One stupid question.There are examples with LEG IV and LEG IIII which is both 4?There seem to be much more with IV than with IIII.I thought that Romans used IIII as 4 and the IV was much later used.The IV is the start of IVPPITER and was so used as abbreviation for Jupiter. Acsearch: antony LEG IV <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=antony+LEG+IV&category=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&thesaurus=1&order=0&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=antony+LEG+IV&category=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&thesaurus=1&order=0&company=" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=antony+LEG+IV&category=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&thesaurus=1&order=0&company=</a> I know many Roman coins with IIII (COS IIII etc.) and with VIIII or XIIII but not with IV,IX and XIV. So is the use of IV and IIII normal for the time of Marc Antony and before and they changed later to use of IIII only? OR is the use of IV someting specific for this issue/emission and had a certain reason?[/QUOTE]