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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7814174, member: 19463&quot;]The Greek numbers were set before the archaic letters they use were dropped from the alphabet.&nbsp; The other one we see is qoppa for 90.&nbsp; In earlier times the city we call Corinth or Korinth used qoppa and that city kept the Q as a city symbol long after they stopped spelling words with that letter.&nbsp; Changing the number system to drop those letters would have been really confusing to people.&nbsp; There was a third archaic numeral dropped Ϡ but it was 900 and I am not aware of a coin that used it.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampi" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampi</a></p><p>Does anyone have a coin bearing a 96 using both of the archaic numbers?&nbsp; I&#039;m probably the only one who would like one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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