v32_0751 - JUSTIN II Demi-follis
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 700.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 700.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Demi-follis
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,29 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier. Beau portrait
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS PP AVI.
Obverse description : Justin, nimbé, trônant de face, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste.
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - E/ II/II.
Reverse description : Grand K surmonté d'une croisette.
Commentary
Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié. Type complètement nouveau où Justin II est seul, sans Sophie. Trace de tréflage au droit et de double frappe au revers.
Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Completely new type where Justin II is alone, without Sophia. Traces of plaiting on the obverse and double striking on the reverse..
Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Completely new type where Justin II is alone, without Sophia. Traces of plaiting on the obverse and double striking on the reverse..
Historical background
JUSTIN II
(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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