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Ancient Roman Bronze coin for the Emperor
Julian II "the Apostate," February 360 - 26 June 363 A. D.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus was born in 331 or maybe 332 A. D. in Constantinople. He ruled the Western Empire as Caesar from 355 to 360 and was hailed Augustus by his legions in Lutetia (Paris) in 360. Julian was a gifted administrator and military strategist. Famed as the last pagan emperor, his reinstatement of the pagan religion earned him the moniker "the Apostate. " As evidenced by his brilliant writing, some of which has survived to the present day, the title "the Philosopher" may have been more appropriate. He died from wounds suffered during the Persian campaign of 363 A. D.