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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24897590, member: 26430"]Nice one! Cool thing about this coin is that it's mentioned in at least one ancient source. The citizens of Antioch reportedly complaining about the design (which makes it especially interesting that yours is from the Antioch mint!): <blockquote>“…the bull, which was impressed upon his coin, was a symbol of his having desolated the world. For the emperor, being excessively superstitious, was continually sacrificing bulls on the altars of his idols, and had ordered the impression of a bull and altar to be made on his coin.”-- The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus </blockquote>[ATTACH=full]1599791[/ATTACH] <blockquote>Julian II AE1 “Double Maiorina” (29mm, 8.2g), struck in Nicomedia, 361-3 CE.Obverse: DN FL CL IVLIANVS PF AVG. Pearl-diademed, draped & cuirassed bearded bust right.Reverse: SECVRITAS REIPVB. Bull standing right, two stars above. Exergue: palm-NIKB-palm.Reference: RIC 121.</blockquote>[/QUOTE]