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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Constantinian Era| > |Jovian| > SH08999
Jovian, 27 June 363 - 17 February 364 A.D.
|Jovian|, |Jovian,| |27| |June| |363| |-| |17| |February| |364| |A.D.|, After evacuating Persia, upon arriving at Antioch, Jovian revoked the edicts of Julian against Christians. The Labarum of Constantine the Great again became the standard of the army. He issued an edict of toleration, to the effect that, while the exercise of magical rites would be punished, his subjects should enjoy full liberty of conscience. However, soon after he ordered burning down the Library of Antioch and on 11 September issued an edict that punishing those who worshiped ancestral gods with the death penalty. He extended the same punishment on 23 December to participation in any pagan ceremony (even private ones). In Syriac literature Jovian became the hero of a Christian romance. From Jovian's reign until the 15th century Christianity remained the dominant religion of both the Western and Eastern Roman Empires, until the Fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453.
SH08999. Gold solidus, RIC VIII Antioch 223, near VF/F, holed & plugged, edge filing, 5th officina, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 4.13g, maximum diameter 21.4mm, die axis 135o, 27 Jun 363 - 16 Feb 364 A.D.; obverse D N IOVIANVS PEP AVG, pearl diademed draped and cuirassed bust right; reverse SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE (security of the Republic), Roma holding spear, and Constantinopolis holding scepter and foot on prow, enthroned facing, holding shield inscribed VOT V MVLT X, ANTE in exergue; Certificate of Authenticity issued by David R. Sear; rare; SOLD











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