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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8340558, member: 110350&quot;]Congratulations, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have nothing directly relevant, but your post does call these to mind.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, here&#039;s a coin with not one but seven 8-pointed stars:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Lucretius Trio*, AR Denarius, 76 or 74 BCE.** Obv. Radiate head of Sol right / Rev. Crescent moon surrounded by seven 8-pointed stars (three above and two on each side); TRIO between horns of crescent***; L• LVCRET<i> below crescent.&nbsp; Crawford 390/1, RSC I Lucretia 2 (ill.), BMCRR I Rome 3245 (ill. BMCRR III, Pl. XLII No. 11), Sear RCV I 321 (ill.), Sydenham 783, Harlan, RRM 1 Ch. 16 at pp. 98-100 [Michael Harlan, <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins</i>, <i>81 BCE-64 BCE</i> (Vol. I) (2012)]. 18 mm., 3.83 g.**** </i>[Footnotes omitted, except for statement in 4th fn. that &quot;I express no opinion on the meaning of the seven stars and crescent moon depicted on the reverse of a number of Imperial denarii, including denarii of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna minted in Emesa more than two centuries later; see RIC IV-1 Septimius Severus 417 &amp; 629. There are similar reverses on coins issued for Diva Faustina I and Diva Faustina II; see RIC III Antoninus Pius 1199, RIC III Marcus Aurelius 750.&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1478929[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My one Diva Faustina I:</p><p><br /></p><p>Diva Faustina I [Senior] (wife of Antoninus Pius), AR Denarius, prob. 150-160 AD [see Dinsdale, infra at p. 216 -- including this type among coins issued upon and after 10th anniversary of Faustina’s deification]. Obv: Draped bust right, DIVA FAVSTINA / Rev: Ceres, veiled, standing left, holding torch in left hand and holding right hand up in greeting,&nbsp; CONSECRATIO. RIC III 382b corr.*, RSC II 165a, Sear RCV II 4593, Dinsdale 020610 [Dinsdale, Paul H, <i>Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Caesar AD 138-161: Antonine Coinage</i> (2018) at p. 249; photo at p. 254]. 17 mm., 3.3 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1478930[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>* RIC III 382b erroneously describes Faustina’s bust on obverse as veiled.&nbsp; (RIC III 382a has&nbsp; different obverse legend [DIVA AVG FAVSTINA]).</p><p><br /></p><p>My only coin with an AETERNITAS legend:</p><p><br /></p><p>Philip I AR Antoninianus, ca. 247/48 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Radiate, draped, &amp; cuirassed bust right, IMP PHILIPPVS AVG/ Rev. Elephant walking left, bearing driver holding goad, AETERNITAS AVGG. RIC IV-3 58, RSC IV 17, Sear RCV III 8921. 23 mm., 4.2 g.&nbsp; (Issued in connection with 1,000th anniversary of founding of Rome.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1478932[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, the Greek equivalent of Aeternitas:</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninus Pius, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 6 (142-143 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, ΑΝΤⲰΝΙΝΟϹ - ϹƐΒƐVϹƐΒ around (beginning at 1:00) / Rev. Phoenix standing right, crowned with circular nimbus [halo], ΑΙ - ⲰΝ [= Aion, Greek equivalent of Roman Aeternitas, also symbolizing the cyclical nature of “time, the orb or circle encompassing the universe, and the zodiac” (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aion_(deity)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aion_(deity)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aion_(deity)</a>)]; across lower fields, L - Ϛ [Year 6]. 23.5 mm., 12.7 g.&nbsp; Dattari (1901 ed.) 2431 at p. 153 (this coin) [Dattari, Giovanni, <i>Monete imperiali greche, Numi Augg. Alexandrini, Catalogo della collezione</i> (Cairo 1901)]; Dattari (Savio) 2429 &amp; Pl. 117 (this coin) [Savio, A. ed.,<i> Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)] [numbering different because of error: illustrations of 2431 and 2429 switched on Pl. 117]; RPC IV.4 Online 13506 (temporary) (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13506" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13506" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13506</a>); Emmett 1419.6; Milne 1734 at p. 42; BMC 16 Alexandria 1004 at p. 117 (rev. ill at Pl. XXVI) [“Phoenix (Numidian crane)”], K&amp;G 35.180 (obv. var., draped), SNG Fr. Alexandrie II 2267 (obv. var., draped). <i>Purchased from Naville Numismatics Auction 72 (27 Mar 2022), Lot 341; ex Dattari Collection</i>.*</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1478933[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>*The phoenix on the reverse of this coin, accompanied by the legend “ΑΙⲰΝ,” clearly relates to the beginning of a new Great Sothic Cycle early in the reign of Antoninus Pius, as most famously reflected in the Zodiac coinage issued in his eighth year. See Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XXI Catalog (“The Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection of the Coins of Roman Alexandria,” Jan 9. 2018), Lot 124, p. 68 (available at <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=349280" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=349280" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=349280</a>). [Remainder of footnote omitted.][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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