bby_1064086 - JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Demi-follis
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Type : Demi-follis
Date: an 7
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,15 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale et centré. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N VSTI-NVS PP AV.
Obverse description : Justin 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 .
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - GI/ E.
Reverse description : Grand K surmonté d'un chrisme.
Commentary
Au revers, nous avons un chrisme au lieu de la croisette. Pour l’an 7, nous avons les deux formes VII GI ou G/I. Le chrisme placé au-dessus du K est légèrement stylisé.
On the reverse, we have a chrism instead of the cross. For the year 7, we have the two forms VII GI or G/I. The chrism placed above the K is slightly stylized.
On the reverse, we have a chrism instead of the cross. For the year 7, we have the two forms VII GI or G/I. The chrism placed above the K is slightly stylized.
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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