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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 2266423, member: 73473&quot;]After visiting Rome in 357, Emperor Constantius II left the Eternal City to deal with an invasion of Sarmatians and Quadi. After a successful punitive expedition against the barbarians, Constantius II returned to Mediolanum where he received envoys from the Sassanid king sharpur II. Sharpur demanded that the Romans return a number of key fortress cities that the Persians had lost during their war with Galerius in the 290&#039;s. Constantius obviously said no but wanted to avoid a war in the East. Unfortunately the Persians attacked and sacked a number of cities in Roman Mesopotamia by the time Constantius reached Constantinople. One such city was Amida, it repulsed numerous Persian attacks for 73 days! The sassanids eventually took the city, but at the cost of 30,000 of their finest warriors.</p><p>Constantius II made his HQ at Antioch and assessed the damage, he decided that he would need a number of Western Legions to supplement his forces in the effort to attack the Persians. Unfortunately, the very Legions that Constantius II called on to report to Antioch were the Legions under his Caesar, Julian. Julian, who had successfully reclaimed northern Gaul and punished the barbarians the previous year, was nervous that Constantius II was trying to alienate him from his Legions so he could eliminate him easily. This sounds a bit extreme, but if you look at some of Constantius&#039;s previous paranoid decisions, you can see where Julian was coming from.</p><p>So Julian revolted and marched from Gaul to Pannonia trying to gather political support from the major cities there. Unfortunately for him most cities actually loved Constantius, so when Julian wrote to the Magistrates of Athens and the Senate of Rome that Constantius was a tyrant and he was the victim, they simply ignored him.</p><p>Constantius managed to make a temporary treaty with Shapur and made his way West with the intent kill his last remaining male relative, he had the majority of them killed when he was 20. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for Julian, Constantius II fell ill with a fever in Cilicia and died there on the 3rd of November 361 CE. He was 44 years old and had been an Augustus for 24 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thousand five hundred and ninety six years later, another important being died.</p><p>&quot;On November 3, in the year 1957, a stray dog named <b>Laika</b> was launched into space to test the conditions and safety of sending a human being into space&quot;</p><p>I will not say much (I might cry if I do) but Rest in Peace Laika.</p><p>I don&#039;t have any new Ancients to show off, but please post your coins of Constantius II, Julian II, and coins that have Dogs on them.</p><p>Thanks and best wishes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantius II Siliqua</p><p>DN CONSTANTIVS PF AVG; Pearl diademed, dr. and cuir. bust r.</p><p>VOTIS / XXX / MVLTIS / XXXX in wreath.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]450879[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Julian II AR Siliqua</p><p>Struck at Trier mint</p><p>360 CE</p><p>1.87 Grams</p><p>[ATTACH=full]450882[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Laika</p><p>Country - Marschall Islands</p><p>Face Value - $1</p><p>Issued - 2014</p><p>Weight - approx 1oz</p><p>Material: Copper</p><p>[ATTACH=full]450886[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sources.</p><p><a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/first-dog-in-space/1/514652.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/first-dog-in-space/1/514652.html" rel="nofollow">http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/first-dog-in-space/1/514652.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html" rel="nofollow">http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/ammianus_19_book19.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/ammianus_19_book19.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/ammianus_19_book19.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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