bby_1178510 - JUSTIN II Solidus
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Type : Solidus
Date: 566-578
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,46 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 8e
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Buste de toute beauté, finement détaillé. Patine de collection
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N I-VSTI-NVS P P AVI.
Obverse description : Buste de Justin II, casqué, diadémé et cuirassé de face, tenant de la main droite un globe nicéphore et de la main gauche un bouclier orné d'un cavalier galopant à droite (N’a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinius Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AVGGG(THÊTA)S// OB*+*.
Reverse description : Constantinople assise de face, la tête tournée à droite, tenant un sceptre long de la main droite et un globe crucigère de la main gauche.
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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