Cute, but actually, no. The ancient Romans had no symbol for 5,000, so they had no way to write "4,000". I don't know why, nor what they did when they needed to write down a big number like that.
Later on, in the Middle Ages and such, folks did "invent" a contrived symbol for bigger numbers in Roman numerals. .One was a "V" with a line over it, to represent 5,000. But hey, if the ancient Romans didn't use it, it doesn't count.
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