WHC 256

  • WHC 256
  • Roman
  • Jovian
  • Thessalonica
  • AD 363-364
  • AE
  • 28mm
  • 8.27g
  • 11h
  • RIC VIII 235 var. (obv. legend); LRBC 1698 var. (obv. legend and bust type). var. (obv. legend); LRBC 1698 var. (obv. legend and bust type).
  • CNG,358,384
  • 2015-08-26
  • - dark green patina, some smoothing. - An interesting and possibly unpublished legend variety, which does not include P P in the obverse legend. Of the seventeen examples in our database, two have this obverse legend, which was not noted at the time they were catalogued (CNG E-Sale 156, lot 390 and CNG 72, lot 1818).

Laurel and rosette-diademed,draped and cuirassed bust right .

DN IOVIAN-VS PF AVG

Jovian standing facing ,head right,holding labarum an Victory on globe;

in exergue ,TESB.VICTORIA ROMANORVM 


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