Live auction - bby_1177552 - JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Demi-follis
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Live starting : Type : Demi-follis
Date: an 7
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,02 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au droit. Joli revers. Patine marron-gris
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 Sophie, à gauche, tient le sceptre cruciforme de la main droite ; au milieu au-dessus, une croix.
Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - Z// .
Reverse description : K surmonté d'une croisette.
Reverse legend : Z/ TES
Reverse translation : (An 7).
Commentary
Pour le demi-follis, nous avons six variétés différentes dans la représentation du revers.
For the half-follis, we have six different varieties in the representation of the reverse
For the half-follis, we have six different varieties in the representation of 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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