v38_1421 - JUSTINIAN II Solidus

MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 2 000.00 €
Realised price : 880.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 473.00 €

Type : Solidus

Date: indiction 6

Date: 682-693

Mint name / Town : Sardinia

Metal : gold

Diameter : 16 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,33 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés, un peu faible sur les légendes. Très beau portrait. Joli revers. Magnifique patine de collection ancienne. Conserve encore une partie de son coupant d’origine

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.29 - R.1686 - Do.36 - BN/B.- p. 410 - BC.1276 (1250£)

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient du stock Bourgey, novembre 1974, (3350€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N IUSTI-NANIUS P P.

Obverse description : Buste couronné et drapé de Justinien II de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite.

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinianus perpetuus”, (Notre seigneur Justinien perpétuel).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGYS.

Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.

Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (La victoire de l’auguste).

Commentary

Solidus de petit flan épais. Ce type était précédemment attribué à l’atelier de Carthage. Les auteurs du Dumbarton Oaks préfèrent un atelier situé en Sardaigne car Carthage fut définitivement perdu en 698 après avoir fermé en 695. Les S des légendes sont rétrogrades et au revers pourraien correspondre à une indiction pour 692/693. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.

Historical background

JUSTINIAN II

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

First 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.