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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1952498, member: 19463&quot;][ATTACH=full]342445[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]342446[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]342447[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]342448[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess you could say I have a bad attitude about the coins of Jovian.&nbsp; They strike me as somewhat boring.&nbsp; Of coure this contributes to my not having any really nice ones but the opinion that he is suitable as one to have a &#039;box checker&#039; grade has already been expressed.&nbsp; I show three different mints (Thessalonika, Siscia and Sirmium) in the &#039;other&#039; reverse variation adding MVLT X to the OP VOT V.&nbsp; They are somewhat boring coins which replaced Julians similarly boring AE3 reverses but Julian used left facing military portraits so he get more interest points than Jovian&#039;s plain busts.&nbsp; There was a large AE1 coin for both rulers but Julian&#039;s wins hands down with the bull reverse while Jovian has a standing soldier as shown by my Antioch example. While not a great coin by any means, it is probably worth about the same as the other three combined mostly because it is an AE1 size coin.&nbsp; Jovian does have some better reverse types on his gold but even the gold is often cheaper than one might expect from a ruler who was in power for such a short time.&nbsp; Jovian was not the kind of emperor that would have made the footnotes of history were it not for the fact that he was Christian and restored that religion to power after the reign of Julian the Apostate.&nbsp; He vigorously persecuted pagans beyond the level that had been seen before.&nbsp;&nbsp; You may want to note that the Christian Valentinian allowed pagans religious freedom so it would be until Theodosius came to power before religious persecutions picked up again.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It seems that most people soon agreed that Jovian was not really emperor material.&nbsp; History records that his death was from mushrooms or carbon monoxide fumes.&nbsp; Both of these are easily &#039;assisted&#039; by those who might benefit from an &#039;accidental&#039; death.&nbsp; It is hard to imagine who might have been terribly upset by his death.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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