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 slokind:

Yes, and see Sear 2000 no. 321, where the moneyer's name, TRIO (genitive
case trionis), written within the crescent, directly alludes to Triones
(plural form), the seven stars that make the Wain (Wagon, Bear = Ursa
Maior), and the seven stars SEPTEM/N surround it.  The obverse of this
denarius is a head of Sol.  That is not to be certain what Hadrian's coin
means by the Seven.  I have heard that antiquity did know seven visible
planets.  In the case of Lucretius Trio's denarius, the prevalent fondness
for literate and learned word play makes the stellar reference to the
easiest to identify of all constellations, and the one that points to the
Pole star, pretty convincing: Septemrio, genit. -ionis, also names both
the Wain and the North.  Pat L.

Jochen: