I have added a web page on the four AE coin types of Jovian, Roman emperor for eight months in 363-4: http://esty.ancients.info/Jovian/Jovian.html It is part of my larger site: http://esty.ancients.info/ Take a look.
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Nice web page. Interesting information. I guess I have neglected Jovian for whatever reason and only have one of his more common coin types. I think I may have to rectify this. 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
ok, i have to ask this. did jovian have a pronounced lower jaw, or did the engravers just smooth over julian ii beard when doing the dies for jovians coins? i still don't have a jovian!
The real question is: Were any of Jovian's coins minted while he was still alive? Julian was killed in Persia and Jovian was elected there. He only lasted three months, and he never got back to Constantinople. So were these coins minted as memorials or not?
Jovian lasted eight months, not three, and the mint distribution makes it clear his coinage spread east to west as expected. They are surely not memorial coins.
