bby_1033456 - JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Follis
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Type : Follis
Date: an 2
Mint name / Town : Cherson
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,60 g.
Coments on the condition:
Jolie monnaie malgré un petit manque de métal à cinq heures. Quelques concrétions. Patine foncée et sable
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Obverse
Obverse legend : XEP CONOC.
Obverse description : Justin II nimbé debout de face, tenant un globe crucifère de la main droite ; à sa gauche, Sophie nimbée debout de face, tenant une croix.
Reverse
Reverse description : Maurice Tibère debout de face, à gauche d’un grand H, tenant un sceptre surmonté d’un chrisme ; au-dessus, une croix.
Reverse translation : (An 1/ Theoupolis).
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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