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EDIT Roman numeral In early letterpress printing, the reverse C in combination with C and I was used frequently to form an imitation of the ligature ↀ (U+2180) that represents the number 1000, because the early printers didn't have a cast type for this character.

Since there is already a representation of the number 1000 (the letter M, U+216F Roman Numeral One Thousand), there are only speculations as to why this ligature was used in the first place. A theory says that is an imitation of the Greek letter Φ (U+03A6 Greek Capital Letter Phi) that also stands for 1000 and would be missing just like the ↀ amongst the first cast metal letters.

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01	CODE POINT VALUE: : : : :	2183
02	NAME (UNICODE NAME) : : :	ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED
03	GENERAL CATEGORY: : : : :	Letter, Uppercase
04	COMBINING CLASS : : : : :	Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined
05	BIDIRECTIONAL CATEGORY: :	Left-to-Right
06	DECOMPOSITION MAPPING : :	-
07	DECIMAL DIGIT VALUE : : :	-
08	DIGIT VALUE : : : : : : :	-
09	NUMERIC VALUE : : : : : :	-
10	MIRRORED: : : : : : : : :	No
11	UNICODE 1.0 NAME: : : : :	ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED
12	ISO 10646 COMMENT FIELD :	-


13	UPPERCASE MAPPING : : : :	-
14	LOWERCASE MAPPING : : : :	U+2184
15	TITLECASE MAPPING : : : :	-
16	DECIMAL VALUE : : : : : :	8579
17	UTF-8 HEX VALUE : : : : :	0xE28683
18	UTF-16 HEX VALUE: : : : :	0x2183
19	UTF-32 HEX VALUE: : : : :	0x00002183
20	XHTML : : : : : : : : : :	&#8579
21	BLOCK : : : : : : : : : :	Number Forms
22	PLANE : : : : : : : : : :	Supplementary Ideographic Plane (SIP)
23	STROKE NUMBER : : : : : :	-
24	RADICAL : : : : : : : : :	-