Nice coin of Julian

be careful with the bull coins...recently a "hoard" of fake Cyzicus coins have been introduced, many on eBay by sellers like saxbys-coins. They come with a variety of patinas.

 

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Rather than starting a new thread, I thought I would share a coin of Julian's successor Jovianus. It's a rather harsh coin but I think I have attributed it correctly. So far, it's my only example of Jovian and it came from an uncleaned hoard.

Here's some background information:

Jovian was born at Singidunum (today Belgrade in Serbia) in 331 AD, the son of Varronianus, the commander of Constantius II's imperial bodyguards (comes domesticorum). He also joined the guards and by 363 had risen to the same command that his father had once held. In this capacity, Jovian accompanied the Roman Emperor Julian on the Mesopotamian campaign of the same year against Shapur II, the Sassanid king. After the Battle of Samarra, a small but decisive engagement, the Roman army was forced to retreat from the numerically superior Persian force. Julian, mortally wounded during the retreat, died on 26 June 363. The next day, after the aged Saturninius Secundus Salutius, praetorian prefect of the Orient, had declined the purple, the choice of the army fell upon Jovian. His election caused considerable surprise: Ammianus Marcellinus suggests that he was wrongly identified with another Jovianus, chief notary (primicerius notariorum), whose name also had been put forward, or that during the acclamations the soldiers mistook the name Jovianus for Julianus, and imagined that the latter had recovered from his illness.

Obverse: DN JOVIANVS PF AVG
Reverse: VOT V in wreath





Feel free to share any Jovians that you have. He ruled for only 8 months before dying from the fumes of a charcoal brazier as he slept (that's one theory).

 

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

 

I believe this is my only example of Jovian:

Jovian, 27 June 363 - 17 February 364 A.D.

Bronze centenionalis, RIC VIII Heraclea 108, aVF, Heraclea (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, weight 2.674g, maximum diameter 20.4mm, die axis 180o, obverse D N IOVIANVS P F AVG, pearl diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust left; reverse VOT V, in two lines within wreath, HERACA in exergue.

 

my favorite type from Jovian--

Jovian
A.D. 363- 364
25x27mm 8.0gm
DN IOVIANVS P F P P AVG- rosette-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
VICTORIA ROMANORVM- Emperor in military dress stg. facing, head right, holding standard inscribed with a Chi-Rho and victory on a globe.
in ex. • TESA •
RIC VIII Thessalonica 237

 

Love that AE1, @Victor_Clark!

I have another Vota type, RIC VIII Antioch 230: