bby_210910 - JUSTINIAN II Solidus

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Type : Solidus

Date: 705

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰

Diameter : 20,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,40 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire. Portraits fantastiques de toute beauté. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.18 (Premier règne) - R.1685 (Premier règne) - Do.1 a - BN/B.1 - BC.1413 (1250£)

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la vente 62, 26 novembre 1992, n° 941

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N IHS CHS REX - REGNANTIYM.

Obverse description : Buste du Christ de face avec la croix ; il est barbu, vêtu du pallium et du colombium ; il bénit de la main droite et tient les Évangiles de la gauche.

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Ihesus Christus Rex Regnantium”, (Notre seigneur Jésus Christ roi des rois).

Reverse

Reverse legend : D N IYS-TINIA-NYS MYLTYS AN.

Reverse description : Buste barbu et couronné de Justinien II de face, vêtu du loros, tenant une croix potencée posée sur trois degrés de la main droite et un globe inscrit PAX surmonté de la croix patriarcale.

Reverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinianus Multus Anni” (Notre seigneur Justinien pour de nombreuses années.

Commentary

Sur cet exemplaire, le buste du Christ est hiératique, comme figé et complètement du Christ presque humain du premier règne de Justinien II (BC. 1248).

Historical background

JUSTINIAN II

(07/10/685-11/4/711)

Second reign

Justinian II, son of Constantine IV, succeeded his father in 685, at the age of sixteen. An advantageous peace with the Muslims enabled him to devote himself to the Balkan problem, which he dealt with by massively deporting Slavs to Asia Minor where he settled them, following the example of his grandfather, Constans II. In 695, he was overthrown by a palace plot, led by General Léonce. Justinian II was saved, but his nose and tongue were cut off. Mutilated, he was sent into exile in Cherson from where he escaped. He took refuge with the Tsar of the Khazars and prepared his revenge but had to flee under pressure from Tiberius III Aspimar to find refuge with Tervel, the khan of the Bulgarians. He returned victorious to Byzantium in the summer of 705 at the head of a barbarian army and savagely took revenge on Leonce and Tiberius III by having them executed. He reigned terror for six years before being murdered along with his six-year-old son Tiberius, ending the Heracliid dynasty. He is known for his religious orthodoxy and the introduction of the representation of Christ on coins.