Other Variations
The "Crossed Seven" is commonly used throughout Europe, but is sporadically used in the United States, and it is not permitted to be written on some inventory tags that are optically read by computers. This modification of the number seven is caused by the numeral one with a long initial stroke and no underserif. There are two more forms of the numeral seven used in France, as seen on Citroën cowls:
- numeral one with a long initial stroke and an underserif; and
- numeral one with a long initial stroke that starts below the underserif and is concave upward.
The Germans have used a numeral one that has two half-serifs so it looks somewhat like a 'Z'. The Germans use a numeral four that looks like a lightning bolt, and in some areas of Eastern Europe, as seen on Romanian tanks, there is a numeral four that does not have a closed loop, but has a Greek cross form of strokes. Usually the numeral two is not slashed, whereas the letter Z is, because handwritten form could be confused with the numeral two.
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