bby_218331 - JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Demi-follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 85.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Demi-follis
Date: an 10
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,78 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan quadrangulaire et ovale, décentré au droit sur la légende. Beaux bustes. Revers de haut relief. Patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-[NVS P P AV].
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, à gauche, tient le sceptre cruciforme de la main droite ; au milieu au-dessus, une croix.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinius Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - X// TES.
Reverse description : K surmonté d'une croisette et d'un M.
Reverse legend : Q+S
Reverse translation : (An 10).
Commentary
Poids léger. Trace de surfrappe du droit sur le revers.
Lightweight. Trace of overhit on the right backhand.
Lightweight. Trace of overhit on the right backhand.
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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