COINS OF THE ROMAN CAISER TIME. Augustus, 30 v.-14 n. ==References== AV-Aureus, 19/18 B.C. Ephesus (Ionia); 7.79 g. Head r., including AV[GVSTVS]//Capricorn r. and SIGNIS, including RECEPTIS. BMC 680; Calicó 272 a (averse stamp equivalent); Coh. 263; RIC2 521. Min. Embossing weakness, wink. Scratches, good very nice Exemplary of the auction Rodolfo Ratto, Milan 4-6. June 1913, No. 59: Collection V. J. E. Ryan, auction Glendining & Co., London 20. February 1951, Nr. 1619 and the auction Meister & Sonntag 3, Stuttgart 2005, Nr. 110. On the lapel is, as Sueton writes (Aug. 94, 12), the sign of Capricorn, under which Augustus was born. This statement by Sueton is in apparent contradiction to Augustus' birthday (taking into account the Republican calendar and other factors of the 21st or 22nd century). ==References== The sun stood either in the Virgin (if one assumes the spring point in 0 degrees Aries) or in the Libra (if, according to a Chaldean method of calculating the horoscope, one accepts the spring place in 8 degrees Aire). Thus it has been assumed that Sueton confused the nativity sign (the zodiac sign of birth) with the conception sign ( the zodicon sign of procreation) of Augustus (lastly Kay Ehling, "Who will now believe in destiny research and horoscope?" (Ephraim d. Syrians 4, 26). Notes on Julian's bull coins and the date of birth of the emperor, in: JNG 45/46 (2005/2006), p. 111-132). In Manilius, however, the Capricorn is also referred to as the birth sign of Augustus (Astronomica II, 509). Manilius also mentions the birth sign of Tiberius, the Libra (Astronomica IV, 776). ==References====External links== ==References== However, the sun was in the Scorpio - here there is the same apparent contradiction as Augustus, which cannot be resolved by reinterpreting the birth sign as a concept sign (unless one assumes a medical miracle - Tiberius must have been begotten a month before his birth). There is another solution: for the zodiac sign of birth, it is not the state of the sun, but that of the moon that is relevant. On the basis of this view, the statement of the sources on the nativity signs of the emperors, both at Augustus and at Tiberius, is correct. So the reverse of our piece shows the sign of the zodiac in which the moon stood at the time of the birth of Augustus. See Sagittarius, The Capricorn as the Zodiac of Augustus, in: Antiquity and the West 37 (1991), pp. 55-67. For the allocation of the mint see Weisser, B., The Capricornus of Augustus in Pergamon, in: Alfaro/Marcos/Otero (eds.), XIII Congresso International de Numismática Madrid - 2003. Actas - Proceedings - Actes I, Madrid 2005, pp. 967 and p. 969.