Julian of Pannonia. Usurper, AD 284-285. Antoninianus (21mm, 2.59 g, 6h). Siscia mint, 2nd officina. Struck December AD 284. IMP C M AVR IVLIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FELICIT AS TEMPORVM, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and scepter; S|B//XXI. RIC V 2; Pink VI/2, p. 49; Venèra 4398; Hunter –. Red-brown patina, flan crack, roughness. Good Fine. Rare.
From the Conti Collection. Ex Pegasi BBS 112 (15 March 1999), lot 348.
Marcus Aurelius Sabinus Iulianus was a corrector in Northern Italy under Carus. In AD 284, during the struggles surrounding the succession between Carinus and Diocletian, Julian usurped imperial authority in Pannonia for a brief period and began issuing coins from Siscia. Carinus marched from his base in Britain to deal with the usurpation, dispatching Julianus early in AD 285 near Verona.