bby_210782 - JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Decanummium
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 40.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 40.00 €
Type : Decanummium
Date: an 10
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,32 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, court sur les légendes. Usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock CGB, mai 1985
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTINO ET SOFIA AG// VITA.
Obverse description : Bustes de Justin II et Sophie couronnés de face ; au milieu au-dessus, une croix.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustino et Sofia Augustorum/ Vita”, (À notre seigneur Justin et Sophie augustes).
Reverse
Reverse description : Grand I entre N et M.
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, la légende n’est pas visible, mais elle est normalement au datif. Trace importante de surfrappe.
On this example, the legend is not visible, but it is normally in the dative case. Significant trace of over-striking
On this example, the legend is not visible, but it is normally in the dative case. Significant trace of over-striking
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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