bby_292797 - JUSTIN I Follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: 518-522
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,98 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré à l’usure très importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS PP AV.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Justin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème invisible.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (GAMMA)// CON.
Reverse description : M entre deux étoiles à cinq rais, surmonté d'une croisette.
Commentary
Poids excessivement léger. Sur cet exemplaire, le diadème n’est pas visible.
Excessively light weight. On this example, the tiara is not visible.
Excessively light weight. On this example, the tiara is not visible.
Historical background
JUSTIN I
(10/07/5/518-1/08/527)
Justin I, illiterate of Macedonian origin, was a brilliant military leader under the reigns of Zeno and Anastasius. At the time of his accession, he was commander-in-chief of the "excubitores" (guards) of Constantinople. He succeeded Anastasius and associated his nephew Justinian with power, who became co-emperor on April 4, 527. Justin died on the following August 1.
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