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The scepter of the Roman queen of the gods, Juno, surmounted by a star. The scepter took various forms in the 19th century, some rather elaborate, but soon the original printer's hack of an asterisk ⟨*⟩ over an inverted dagger ⟨⸸⟩ was settled on for typographic convenience.

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1. (astronomy, astrology) The asteroid 3 Juno.

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• A printer's hack is the original published glyph of 1804
• A variant published in 1840
• Variant with an orb
• An elaborate variant
• Symbol on a rose background

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1. (dated) getauft (baptized)