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The seven-stars motif appeared on coins before imperial age. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. It is interesting that on one side of his coin there's the Moon with seven stars, on the other, a personification of the Sun. A very cosmological coin


You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. gives other examples by Lucius Lucretius Trio (76 BC) and Publius Clodius (42 BC, with five stars).

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. provides an excellent explanation for the seven stars:
The stars are the Septem Triones (Ursa major), a pun of the moneyer cognomen.

So, at least in the case of Trio, the Seven Stars are the Ursa Major constellation.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., so while the Persians saw Ursa Major as made up of seven bears, the Romans saw it as seven oxen.