bby_229195 - JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 95.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: an 5
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,59 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très belle patine vert olive, légèrement piquée sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS PP AVC.
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, une croix.
Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - G/ E// CON.
Reverse description : M surmontée d'une croisette ou d'un chrisme.
Reverse translation : (an 5).
Commentary
Au droit, les personnages, Justin et Sophie sont stéréotypés. Pas de croisette entre Justin II et Sophie. Au revers, marque de valeur surmontée d’un chrisme.
On the obverse, the figures, Justin and Sophie, are stereotypical. There is no cross between Justin II and Sophie. On the reverse, a value mark surmounted by a chrism.
On the obverse, the figures, Justin and Sophie, are stereotypical. There is no cross between Justin II and Sophie. On the reverse, a value mark surmounted by a chrism.
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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