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has been found, struck with a (capital) turned A, in the collection of a Madrid-based numismatist; it is unclear whether this was intentional, or a printer's error for a V.
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Because of the relative ease of creating this letterform using traditional printing methods, it had frequent and varied historical uses. According to the principle of
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Debernardi, Pierluigi (2010). "Some unlisted varieties and rare dies in Roman Republican denarii".
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
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Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems
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Proposal to add Latin letters and a Greek symbol to the UCS
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Gibbon, Dafydd; Richard Winski, Roger Moore (1997).
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Index

Latin turned alpha
Near-open central vowel

symbol
A
Roman or two story form
International Phonetic Alphabet
near-open central vowel
alpha
open back rounded vowel
sans-serif
universal quantification
predicate logic
Gerhard Gentzen
Giuseppe Peano
turned E
existential quantification
Bertrand Russell
Turned a presented in Edward Lhuyd's Archaeologia Britannica, 1707.
Turned a in William Pryce's Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica, 1790.
acrophony
Proto-Sinaitic
ox
aleph
logographic
denarius
Roman Republic
Edward Lhuyd
William Pryce
Cornish language

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