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To be fair, this is looking more like late XVIII century man with advanced syphilis, but after looking some of late XV century portraits the point still somewhat stands anyway.
Why the fuck would you use Roman numerals?
Some Slavic languages, such as Russian, use Roman numerals for numbering centuries
Edit: why was this downvoted? If I'm wrong please tell me, I'd like to learn :)
In some roman language like french too !
Spanish too
some latin languages as well!
It's called history.
I couldn't give VIII fucks if he uses Roman numerals
Arabic numerals are the devil's numbers!
It's in the username!