bby_221602 - JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 135.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 135.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: an 8
Mint name / Town : Theoupolis (Antioche)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,26 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, irrégulier avec les grènetis visibles. Usure superficielle parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine marron clair, légèrement nettoyée au revers
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock Silberstein (2002)
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDES CORROMPUES (VHTUI-CLLTUL).
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 sceptre de la main droite, et elle tient le sceptre cruciforme de la main droite ; au milieu, ils tiennent tous les deux le globe crucigère ; au milieu une croisette.
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - (GAMMA)/ G/II// THEUPO'.
Reverse description : Grande M surmontée d'une croisette.
Reverse translation : (An 8/ Theoupolis).
Commentary
Au droit la légende est complètement déformée et tronquée. Au revers, nous avons plusieurs représentations pour la marque d’exergue.
On the obverse, the legend is completely distorted and truncated. On the reverse, we have several representations for the exergue mark.
On the obverse, the legend is completely distorted and truncated. On the reverse, we have several representations for the exergue mark.
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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