Excellent!
Looks like a candidate character for encoding. I’m sure I have some examples of 
good font designs for the old character in one of my books. 

> On 4 Jan 2016, at 15:38, Raymond Mercier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The sign described as like 7 is surely a cursive form of π. The form used by 
> Gauss (Disquisitio de elementis ellipticis Palladis) is much the same as that 
> shown in manuals of Greek Palaeography as a cursive π. This is given by E.P. 
> Thompson in two works, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography, 
> Oxford, 1912, p.83, and  A Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography, Chicago, 
> 1975, p. 95.
> Raymond Mercier
> <Pi_Abbrev.jpg><GaussPallas_21.jpg>

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/


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