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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Voulgaroktonou, post: 2723073, member: 84047&quot;]The &quot;letter&quot; L is really not the letter L. The symbol that resembles L is taken from Demotic Egyptian documents. When it is used in the documents it indicates that the number that follows it is a year. I too have wondered whether there is any significance to spelling out the year as opposed to using the simple Greek numeral and have not come up with an answer. The only thing I know for certain is that the number nine always (I believe, though there may be exceptions I have forgotten) is written out because the Greek letter for 9 is theta, and that is the first letter in the word <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%98%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%98%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" rel="nofollow">Θάνατος,</a> which means &quot;death&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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