bby_1029224 - JUSTIN II Semissis
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Type : Semissis
Date: 565-578
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,18 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS PP AVI.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Justin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA AVGGG/ *|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Victoire assise à droite sur un bouclier, nue jusqu'à la ceinture inscrivant XXXX sur un bouclier qu'elle tient sur ses genoux ; un chrysme à droite.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).
Historical background
JUSTIN II
(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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