The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c12.74
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c12.74
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c12.74
The earliest English coin dated in these numerals was struck in 1551,² although there is a Scotch piece of 1539.³ In numbering pages of a printed book these numerals were first used in a work of Petrarch's published at Cologne in 1471.⁴ The date is given in the following form in the *Biblia Pauperum*,⁵ a block-book of 1470, while in