AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF COINS OF JULIAN II (THE PHILOSOPHER) AND THE FESTIVAL OF ISIS
The Festival of Isis Faria
Æ 3, 4th century AD, Æ 1.68 g. DEO SER – APIDI Draped bust of Sol-Serapis r., wearing modius. Rev. VOTA P – VBLICA Isis in ship r., holding the sail and looking backwards. C 109. Alföldi 232 and pl. V, 21 (this coin illustrated).
Rare. An almost invisible metal flaw on obverse, otherwise
about extremely fine / good very fine
Ex Gilhofer & Ranschburg-Hess 22 May 1935, Trau in lot (?) and Sternberg XXXIII, 1997, 387 sales.