Maiorina - Julianus II FEL TEMP REPARATIO, M, Nicomedia

Julian II—later called "the Apostate" by Christian writers—was still Caesar under Constantius II when Nicomedia struck this issue, not yet the Augustus who would attempt to reverse decades of imperial Christianization. The FEL TEMP REPARATIO series was itself a Constantian propaganda program, the slogan translating roughly as "the restoration of happy times," a phrase that rings with some irony given the civil instability it papered over.

Nicomedia was among the most productive eastern mints of the period, and the M officina mark on this piece places it within a well-documented sequence. The mint was sacked and effectively closed following the earthquake of 358.