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In old wills and inventories some of the numbers look a bit like Roman numerals, but why is a j included?

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In old wills and inventories some of the numbers look a bit like Roman numerals, but why is a j included?

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It is really a long ‘i’. So ij means 2, iij means 3, iiij means 4. Roman numerals were used in such documents.