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Julian II SECVRITAS REIPVB from Sirmium

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Julian II
A.D. 360-363
28mm  9.1gm
DN FL C IVLI-ANVS P F AVG; pearl-diademed, draped, & cuirassed bust r.
SECVRITAS REIPVB; Bull, head facing, standing right; above, two stars.
In ex. * BSIRM palm branch
RIC VIII Sirmium 107

Julian II tried to revive paganism and the reverse of this coin symbolizes his pagan beliefs. This upset some of his Christian subjects and the people of Antioch even demonstrated against him “shouting…that his coinage had a bull and that the world was overturned.” (Socrates, Hist. Eccl. 3.17)