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Type : Follis
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,57 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli revers. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI -NVS .
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 tient le sceptre cruciforme de la main droite ; au milieu, au-dessus, une croix.
Obverse translation : (Notre Seigneur Justin).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - II/II/ D// CON.
Reverse description : Grande M surmontée d'une croisette.
Reverse translation : (An 4/ Constantinople).
Commentary
Émission lourde taillée au 1/21 L. (poids théorique 15,46 g) pour les quatre premières années de règne de Justin II. Sur ce type, il n’y a pas de croix au milieu entre Justin II et Sophie. Pour le revers, nous n’avons pas moins de six variantes différentes en fonction du type de croix surmontant le M du revers.
Heavy issue cut to 1/21 L. (theoretical weight 15.46 g) for the first four years of Justin II's reign. On this type, there is no cross in the middle between Justin II and Sophie. For the reverse, we have no less than six different variants depending on the type of cross surmounting the M on the reverse.
Heavy issue cut to 1/21 L. (theoretical weight 15.46 g) for the first four years of Justin II's reign. On this type, there is no cross in the middle between Justin II and Sophie. For the reverse, we have no less than six different variants depending on the type of cross surmounting the M on the reverse.
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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