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The conventional conversion of the year 1999 into Roman numerals is MCMXCIX.

But there is strong evidence that the Romans themselves would have enscribed 1999 as MDCCCCLXXXXVIIII which contains 16 characters.

The subtractive element of their numeracy system was introduced at a later time.

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