AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF COINS OF JULIAN II (THE PHILOSOPHER) AND THE FESTIVAL OF ISIS
The Festival of Isis Faria
Tessera 4th century AD, Æ 2.75 g. SEO SAR – APIDI Jugate and draped busts r. of Isis and Serapis. Rev. Flat surface on which XVI. C –. Alföldi – cf. pl VII, 31 (obverse). Göbl, Antike Numismatik 2, pl. 19, 195 (this coin illustrated).
Very rare. Extremely fine
Ex Glendining, 21 November 1950, Platt Hall II 2120, and Sternberg XXXIII, 1997, 393 sales.