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Originally posted by Woodman:
He supposes it to be because the Roman numeral "I" looks the same as a capital "I". So they'd use the same character. Aye?

Hmm ....
By that logic, it would seem that because the Roman numeral “V” looks the same as a capital “V”, they should use the same character: i.e., rather than 1955 the convention would be I9VV. Interesting idea, though.