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Message:: [QUOTE="zumbly, post: 1952456, member: 57495"]I'm submitting this one in the hopes that it will pick up a prize in the Rough and Corroded category.  In any case, I reckon it's worth the $4 I paid since it checks my Jovian box. The seller had misattributed this coin to Julian, which is funny because it would not be the first time Jovian has been mistaken for Julian... Ammianus Marcellinus, a soldier and historian who accompanied Julian on his ill-fated Persian campaign, wrote that when the latter succumbed to wounds sustained in a battle the camp was in disagreement over who should be proclaimed Augustus. A small party of his followers took it upon themselves to raise Jovian, the relatively undistinguished commander of the household guard. They proceeded to carry him through the camp while shouting "Jovianus Augustus".  The camp soldiers apparently heard their acclamation as "Julianus Augustus" instead, and thinking that Julian had recovered from his wounds cheered the newcomer.  When they realized their mistake, grief broke out anew but Jovian's elevation was upheld "as if by the blind decree of Fortune." Please post your Jovian coins or your really rough and corroded coins.  [ATTACH=full]342441[/ATTACH] JOVIANAE3. 2.1g, 20mmHeraclea mint, 363 - 364 AD.RIC VIII 108O: D N IOVIAN-VS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust left.R: VOT V, in two lines within wreath. Mintmark: HERACA[/QUOTE]