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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7812511, member: 19463&quot;]The &#039;9&#039; matter was most useful to numismatic scholarship one time in particular.&nbsp; Sulla 80 posted the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When RIC VI was published, people attributed the Anonymous Pagan coins to Julian II time rather than Maximinus II time so they were not included.</p><p><br /></p><p>When RIC VIII was published, people had re-attributed the Anonymous Pagan coins to Maximinus II time rather than Julian II time so they were not included.&nbsp; That meant the coins are not in RIC.&nbsp; The pagan aversion to the 9 went out of style with the advent of Christianity and Julian&#039;s own coinage used theta nines as had the last few emperors before him.&nbsp; The coins here simply could not be issued after the changeover so scholars rethought the matter.&nbsp; I have never owned a Julian theta coin but RIC lists them.&nbsp; The closest I have is this Antioch mint Constantius II.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342418[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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