bby_1090432 - JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Demi-follis
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Type : Demi-follis
Date: 572-577
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 7,22 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Jolie représentation du droit. Usure régulière. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTIO ET SOFIE AV.
Obverse description : Justin II et Sophie assis de face sur un double trône, ils sont nimbés tous les deux ; Justin est à droite, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite et elle, à gauche, tient le sceptre cruciforme de la main droite ; au milieu au-dessus, une croix.
Obverse translation : “Domino Nostro Iustino et Sofie Augustorum”, (À nos seigneurs Justin et Sophie augustes).
Reverse
Reverse legend : // NM.
Reverse description : Deux Victoires debout face à face, tenant ensemble un bouclier timbré d'une étoile ; au-dessous, K.
Commentary
Ce type est frappé sur un étalon plus lourd que pour les autres ateliers.
This type is struck on a heavier standard than for the other workshops
This type is struck on a heavier standard than for the other workshops
Historical background
JUSTIN II and SOPHIA
(11/15/565-10/5/578)
Justin II, nephew of Justinian I, married Sophia, the niece of Theodora, in 548. They were crowned on November 20, 565. Justin deprived of reason, it was in fact Sophia who governed with the help of Narses, general-in-chief in Italy, which she ends up disgracing. He did not know how to face the problems and the invasions of the Lombards in Italy, the Visigoths in Spain, the Sassanids in the East. Crazy, Justin was associated with Tiberius as Caesar from 574, and for the last four years he was the de facto reigner. Tiberius II was associated as august in September 578. Justin died on October 5.
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