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Modern Latin does not include abbreviation symbols that were used in medieval Latin. Those symbols disappeared when the printing press was invented because it was hard to typeset such a rich and varied set of characters.


If you look at the "9" symbol in the VMS, you will notice that it is usually at the ends of words, sometimes at the beginning, and rarely in the middle of words. It also sometimes stands alone.

This is exactly how the "9" abbreviation in medieval Latin was positioned and it is NOT typical of the way numbers were positioned.