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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: an 6
Mint name / Town : Cyzicus
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,38 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Joli droit avec une faiblesse de frappe sur les portraits. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS PP AI.
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 tient le sceptre cruciforme de la main droite ; au milieu, au-dessus, un chrisme.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O/ A/ GI// KYZ.
Reverse description : M surmontée d'une croisette.
Reverse translation : (an 6/ Cyzique).
Commentary
Au droit, les personnages, Justin et Sophie sont stéréotypés. Sur cet exemplaire, entre Justin et Sophie, nous trouvons un petite croix.
On the right, the characters, Justin and Sophie, are stereotypical. On this example, between Justin and Sophie, we find a small cross.
On the right, the characters, Justin and Sophie, are stereotypical. On this example, between Justin and Sophie, we find a small cross.
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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