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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4367750, member: 98035&quot;]Very nice!</p><p><br /></p><p>My Julian II bull could probably get an upgrade, but I got such a deal ($10/pc lot) that I haven&#039;t pulled the trigger on a ~$100 &quot;eye candy&quot; grade Julian II bull</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103532[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also have a siliqua minted during his tenure as Caesar under Constantius II</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103531[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Still on the lookout for an early beardless siliqua as Augustus from his western mints while he was technically a usurper.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some disjointed observations:</p><p>- Except for a few excessively rare late empire issues, Julian was the last emperor to have coins issued in his name while he was Caesar, as the Valentinian-Theodosian dynasty preferred to bypass any vestige of the cursus honorium and promote children straight to co-emperor.</p><p>- I have heard that Priscus Attalus was the last pagan emperor, although I haven&#039;t heard why that assertion was made.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Venus was far from the last pagan deity on coins, because after the collapse of the tetracycline, we still had:</p><p>- Jupiter, Mars and Sol on coins of Constantine and Licinius</p><p>- Pax and Pietas on coins of Fausta, Theodore, and Helena</p><p>- Festival of Isis coins depicting Egyptian gods and goddesses at least until the time of Valentinian</p><p>- Victoria made a regular appearance until Justin modified her into an &quot;angel&quot; in the early 6th century[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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