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Live auction - bmv_362222 - ITALY - LOMBARDY - COINAGE IN THE NAME OF JUSTINIAN I Demi-silique

ITALY - LOMBARDY - COINAGE IN THE NAME OF JUSTINIAN I Demi-silique VF/XF
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Estimate : 280 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 01 August 2017 14:57:41
Type : Demi-silique
Date: 568-774
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 0,66 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Cette demi-silique est frappée sur un flan irrégulier. Les reliefs, très nets au revers, sont plus faibles au droit
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Alain Poinsignon et de la collection MG

Obverse


Obverse legend : DN [...].
Obverse description : Buste drapé et diadémé à droite.

Reverse


Reverse description : Croix chrismée accostée de deux étoiles à six rais dans une couronne végétale.

Commentary


Cet exemplaire est très proche si ce n’est des mêmes coins que le MEC. 297 “aux inscription obscures”...
Ces demi-siliques sont au nom de Justinien Ier (627-565) et ont été frappées en Lombardie entre 568 et 690 d’après les datations avancées dans le MEC.1.

Historical background


ITALY - LOMBARDY - COINAGE IN THE NAME OF JUSTINIAN I

(568-774)

The Lombards are originally a Germanic people, who, after a long march towards the Danube, crossed the Alps around 568 under the leadership of King Alboin. In less than four years, from 568 to 572, they invaded the Po plain. Without real political unity, many Lombard duchies emerged. They converted to Christianity at the beginning of the 7th century and King Agilulf had his children baptized. In 663, the Lombards pushed back the Byzantine troops of Constant II who sought to reconquer Italy. The Lombards seized Bologna in 728 then Ravenna in 751. The pope, threatened, asked for help from the Franks with whom he made an alliance in 754. Pepin the Short launched two expeditions which resulted, in 756, in the Treaty of Pavia . This treaty did not calm the Lombards, however, who invaded the Papal States in 772. Charlemagne intervened in 774 and forced Didier to capitulate; this intervention marked the decline of the Lombards.

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