MCMLXXXVI

今早原先打算入長城, 但無貨
-- 好兆頭來

早去年十二月提及

"舊貨傾消時 小心小心"

近一個月長城大批出貨
又中
銀價由35躂落31.8, ~10%

今早無銀供應,
就吸金看看
$13945

另外, 無意汁到寶, 哈哈...



Obverse of 1986 One Ounce Eagle with date in Roman Numerals MCMLXXXVI

Eagles have Arabic Dates from 1992 Onwards

Latin Dates or Roman Numerals on American Eagles
We don't know why, but when the United States of America started issuing gold eagle bullion coins in 1986, they used Roman numerals for the dates. This lasted for V years, sorry 5 years, until 1991. From 1992 they reverted to the use of normal Arabic numerals. Our guess at the reason for the change is that very few Americans speak Latin. Even those who do probably have trouble counting with Roman numerals. Arithmetic must be even more difficult.
Date Conversion
Because not everyone can convert Roman numerals and dates to normal arabic ones, here is a conversion table:-

Roman	Arabic
MCMLXXXVI	1986
MCMLXXXVII	1987
MCMLXXXVIII	1888
MCMLXXXIX	1989
MCMXC	1990
MCMXCI	1991

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MCMLXXXVI = 1986
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