bby_685104 - JUSTIN I Follis
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Type : Follis
Date: 522-527
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,96 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier à l’usure plus marquée au droit qu’au revers. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS PP AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Justinien Ier à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : B// CON À L'EXERGUE.
Reverse description : M surmontée d’une croisette et accostée d’une étoile à six rais et d’une croix grecque.
Commentary
Au revers, la marque de valeur est encadrée par une étoile à six rais et d’une croix grecque surmontée d’une croisette.
On the reverse, the mark of value is framed by a six-pointed star and a Greek cross surmounted by a cross
On the reverse, the mark of value is framed by a six-pointed star and a Greek cross surmounted by a cross
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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