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 View CategoriesHome > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Cyprus| > SH59392Cyprus, Time of Augustus, 27 B.C. - 14 A.D. Augustus' sun sign was Libra. We don't know why he selected the Capricorn as his emblem. Perhaps Capricorn was either his rising sign or his Moon sign. Popular astrology, of the newspaper kind, is sun sign astrology. The ancients tended to attach more importance to the Moon sign and rising signs. Perhaps Augustus selected the Capricorn because it is associated with stern moral authority. Tiberius (born Nov. 13) was a Scorpio.
SH59392. Bronze AE 16, RPC I 3916, SNG Cop -, aVF, Cypriot mint, weight 2.854g, maximum diameter 16.0mm, die axis 315o, obverse capricorn right, star above; reverse scorpion left, star above; SOLD
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