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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24704650, member: 26430&quot;]One nice thing about having a Julian II bull <i>from the mint of Antioch</i> is that we have a famous contemporary account of the citizens of Antioch complaining about those coins. He was on his way through town to fight the Persians:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Antiochenes not bearing the insult – for they are a people naturally impatient with insult – instantly broke forth into invectives against Julian, caricaturing his beard, which was a very long one, and saying that it ought to be cut off and manufactured into ropes. <b>They added that the bull, which was impressed upon his coin, was a symbol of his having desolated the world</b>. 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.” <i>The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus </i>Chapter XVII<i>.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, my better example of the type is from Nikpolis, not Antioch:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578206[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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