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In October I posted about an unusual way to write the year "5" :
https://www.numisforums.com/topic/7550-roman-numerals-for-5/#comment-98794
There I posted a coin with "5" written in Roman numerals as
II
III
instead of "V". 
  I find it interesting that Byzantine denominations are often in Greek (e.g. M for 40)
while on the same coin the date is in Roman numerals, (e.g. XII for 12):

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Justinian, 527-565. 42-40 mm. 21.49 grams. Sear 163.

This post is about an interesting (if ugly) Byzantine coin where the date is in Greek!

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Justin II and Sophia, 565-578. Sear 366. Year 5.
23.7-18.4 mm. 4.94 grams.
Denomination "K" for "20" in Greek. ANNO for "year" (in Latin) down the left. TES (in Latin) below the K for Thessalonica mint. ΘKC above, with a bar above the KC, abbreviating Theotokos (Greek for "Mother of God").
Є to right for year 5 in Greek. The same type (Sear 366) also comes with year ɥ (also for 5). Year 4 is in Greek only and years 6, 7, and 8 come in both Greek and Roman numerals.

I have a page about reading Byzantine coin legends
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/legends.html
and it has a section on the use of numerals:
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/legends.html#numbers

Show us some use of numerals on coins (or maybe both Greek and Roman numerals on the same coin). 

 

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