Triones

Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. Triones, seven stars, called by the ancients the Pleiades. This constellation is thought to be alluded to in the types which appear on the coins of the Asinia, Claudia, Lucretia, Petronia, and Sempronia families; also on coins of Augustus, Nero, Domitian and Domitia, Hadrian, Faustina sen., Commodus, &c.

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Triones

Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. Triones, seven stars, called by the ancients the Pleiades. This constellation is thought to be alluded to in the types which appear on the coins of the Asinia, Claudia, Lucretia, Petronia, and Sempronia families; also on coins of Augustus, Nero, Domitian and Domitia, Hadrian, Faustina sen., Commodus, &c.

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