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The numerals Rome inherited.
Also known as: Etruscan numbers
The Etruscan number signs from which the Roman numerals descend.
Write numbers in Etruscan inscriptions.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Derived from tally notches rather than from letters, which is why the Roman numerals that descend from them look like letters without being them: the resemblance of V and X to letters is a coincidence of shape.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Tally-derived signs for one, five and ten built from a stroke, a half-figure and a cross, written right to left.