Description: Jovian (363 - 364 AD). AE1, Thessalonica mint. D N IOVIANVS PERP AVG; laurel and rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA ROMANORVM; Jovian standing facing, head right, holding labarum in right hand, Victory on a globe in left, TESA in ex.

Diameter: AE28 mm

Weight: 7,4 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: RIC VIII 238; LRBC 1700

Commentary: bronze surfaces, good details, some roughness

History: Jovian reestablished Christianity as a emperor's preferred religion and after very brief time of apparent toleration issued two edicts subjecting those who worshiped ancestral gods, even privately, to the death penalty.

Article Number: 058-05-03-42386