He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past. He is the initiator of human life, of new historical ages, and financial enterprises: according to myth he was the first to mint coins and the as, first coin of the liberal series, bears his effigy on one face. He is also the god of bridges and other passages and also the god of all buildings. Interestingly he is uniquely of Roman origins as the ancient Greeks have no equivalent. Janus frequently symbolized change and transitions such as the progress of past to future, from one condition to another, from one vision to another, and young people’s growth to adulthood. He represented time, because he could see into the past with one face and into the future with the other. Hence, Janus was worshipped at the beginnings of the harvest and planting times, as well as at marriages, deaths and other beginnings. He represented the middle ground between barbarism and civilization, rural and urban space, youth and adulthood. Having jurisdiction over beginnings Janus had an intrinsic association with omens and auspices. Here is is depicted on one of the earliest of the Roman Republican silver coinage, the quadrigatus. This lustrous example is quite amazing particularly because this is a full Oath Taking Stater weighing 6.9 grams.