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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: an 9
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 12,83 g.
Officine: 4ème
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, mais irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Bustes énigmatiques. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES IV, n° 500 et du stock de Nadia Kapamadji (fonds Florange)
Obverse
Obverse legend : DN IVSTI-NVS PP AV.
Obverse description : Justin 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 tient le sceptre cruciforme de la main droite ; au milieu au-dessus, une croix.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - /G/II/I/ (DELTA)// CON.
Reverse description : Grand M surmonté d'une croisette.
Reverse translation : (an 9/ Constantinople).
Commentary
Sur ce type, il n’y a pas de croix au milieu entre Justin II et Sophie. Pour le revers nous n’avons pas moins de six variantes différentes en fonction du type de croix surmontant le M du revers. Pour l’an 9, nous avons deux manières différentes de le représenter avec GI/II ou G/II/I comme sur notre exemplaire. Les cinq officines semblent connues pour les deux types. Sur notre exemplaire, nous semblons apercevoir une cassure de coin dans la date au revers.
On this type, there is no cross in the middle between Justin II and Sophia. For the reverse, we have no fewer than six different variants depending on the type of cross surmounting the M on the reverse. For the year 9, we have two different ways of representing it with GI/II or G/II/I as on our example. The five officinae seem to be known for both types. On our example, we seem to see a die break in the date on the reverse
On this type, there is no cross in the middle between Justin II and Sophia. For the reverse, we have no fewer than six different variants depending on the type of cross surmounting the M on the reverse. For the year 9, we have two different ways of representing it with GI/II or G/II/I as on our example. The five officinae seem to be known for both types. On our example, we seem to see a die break in the date on 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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