The Compromise

I was thinking of opening a new thread for Jovian, but considering all the nice coins of him gathered on this one, including @Valentinian 's incredible rarity, I'll just revive it to add a coin very similar to @dougsmit 's AE1 up to officina. It's not a die match tho.




This AE1 is part of a coinage that started under Julian II's revival of large module base metal issues and ended with Valens by the mid 360s. Antioch had a great output for Jovian, which means that although scarce in good condition, these coins are available usually. The bust with rosette diadem might be a bit scarcer than the usual pearl-diademed, but according to RIC both 228 and 229 are noted as S (scarce).

It has the pleasing aspect of an overall mediocre condition coin but of a nice size, weight and design. Plus the interesting head gear of the emperor in the effigy. Some traces of silvering are visible, which is quite interesting also.

 

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Lots of nice coins in this thread so I too will add a couple of coins:

Father:

Æ of Julian II, AD 360-363, Heraclea mint
Obv: D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS P F AVG, Diademed, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield
Rev: VOT / X / MVLT / XX in four lines within wreath; HERACL

Son:
Æ of Jovian, AD 363-364,Sirmium mint
Obv: D N IOVIA-NVS P F AVG, Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust left
Rev: VOT/ V/ MVLT/ X in four lines within wreath, in exergue, ASIRM

 

Interesting thread that I didn't recall. Still have that terrible Jovian though. Glad the thread has been resurrected.

 

This was a nice surprise to see this thread resurrected.

 

For some reason or another, I like Jovian much better than Julian II. I don't have any very interesting coins from his reign, though:


AE Centenionalis

Heraclea 363-64 AD

RCV 19218

20mm, 2,70g



AE Centenionalis

Aqueila

363-64 AD

RCV 19227

18mm, 2,89g

 

I have no Jovian coins as of yet, but here's my one and only siliqua, of Valens, from the East Harptree hoard:

Valens, AR Siliqua, 364-367, Rome Mint. Obv. DN VALEN-S PF AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right / Rev. VOT V MV dot LT X in four lines within wreath. In exergue: Mintmark RB. RIC IX Rome 10c, RSC V 91(h) (ill.). 17 mm., 2.00 g. From 1887 East Harptree hoard.

 

While we're at it, and even though it's been posted only a few days ago, for the purpose of unity, I'll re-post here my other Jovian


Jovianus, AE 1 - Antioch mint, 3 rd officina
D N IOVIAN VS P F AVG, Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Jovianus right
VICTORIA ROMANORVM, Jovianus standing, holding victory on a globe and labarum, ANT gamma at exergue
8.46 gr
Ref : RIC # 228, Cohen #22, RC #4085, LRBC #2645

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JOVIAN
AE3
OBVERSE: DN IOVIA-NVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, & cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: VOT V MVLT X in four lines across field within wreath; BSIRM
Struck at Sirmium 363-4 AD
3.0g, 20mm
RIC 118b

 

The large AE1 for Jovian was minted at Heraclea, Thessalonica, Constantinople and Antioch. Heraclea issues seem to be the least available, followed by the mintage of Constantinople (oddly so), with Thessalonica and Antioch making the bulk of the type. Here is a horrible AE1 Jovian from Constantinople that was 10EUR shipped in 2015:

 

I join to this thread with my update of Jovian AE1 from Thessalonica:

 

Dang. I assume that’s the same coin? That’s a great cleaning job.

Maybe too great. Maybe that’s a different coin. Nice.

 

It's different coin, paid 5 time more than first coin.

 

Well it was worth it.

 

Nice additions everyone! I thought the same thing, @Gavin Richardson. I was like why can’t I have those kind of results?!