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bby_696534 - JUSTIN II Demi-follis

JUSTIN II Demi-follis XF
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Type : Demi-follis
Date: an 6
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,82 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier à l’usure plus marquée au droit qu’au revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.-  - R.-  - Do.108  - BN/B.-  - BC.370  - MBR.47 a - DMBR.5 /28

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-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 - UI// */ NI.
Reverse description : Grand K surmonté d'une croisette .

Commentary

Pour ce type, la marque d’atelier à l’exergue est seulement NI pour Nicomédie.

Historical background

JUSTIN II

(15/11/565-5/10/578)

Justin II, nephew of Justinian I, married Sophia, niece Theodora in 548. They were crowned on November 20 565. Private Justin reason, it is in fact Sophie who ruled with the help of Narses, commander in chief in Italy, she eventually disgrace. He could not cope with the problems and invasions of the Lombards in Italy, Visigoths in Spain, the Sassanids in the East. Crazy, Justin lives as associate Tiberius Caesar from 574, and during the last four years, it was he who reigned done. Tiberius II was associated as august in September 578. Justin died Oct. 5.

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