Live auction - bby_497598 - JUSTIN II Silique
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| Estimate : | 300 € |
| Price : | 150 € |
| Maximum bid : | 155 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 July 2018 15:41:07 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Silique
Date: c. 565-578
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,31 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un irrégulier bien centré. Beau buste de Justin II. Usure plus marquée au revers. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection André Ronde
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS PP AV.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Justin II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (C’a) .
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iusitinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLORIA [RO-MANORVM]/ -|*// COB.
Reverse description : Justin II debout de face, nimbé, vêtu militairement, tenant un sceptre long de la main droite et un globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Romanorum”, (la gloire des Romains).
Commentary
Le buste semble bien surmonté d’un plumet de casque. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges larges. Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
The bust seems to be topped with a helmet plume. Type 3 ribbons. Wide pteryga. Seems much rarer than general literature suggests
The bust seems to be topped with a helmet plume. Type 3 ribbons. Wide pteryga. Seems much rarer than general literature suggests
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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