Julian Bull types

 

 

 

4.83g/24mm

The style of engraving suggests an irregular mint in one of the Danube provinces, using a Sirmium or Thessalonica mint prototype. The portrait style is very crude and the lettering garbled.

 

7.15g/25.5mm

 

This coin is rather special for a number of reasons. Firstly of course its eye appeal. The dies are engraved in a distinctive barbarous style and it has a great light green patina. The legends are fully understandable, as long as they are on-flan. Secondly, the mint mark identifies the prototype unmistakenly as Aquileia - •AQVILP. As specialist collectors know, even regular Aquileia mint Julian Bulls are quite hard to find, as opposed to his other mints.