bmv_862052 - IMITATION AT THE NAME OF JUSTIN II Tremissis

IMITATION AT THE NAME OF JUSTIN II Tremissis XF

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Type : Tremissis

Date: 565-578

Mint name / Town : Brioude ?

Metal : gold

Diameter : 14,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,33 g.

Coments on the condition:

Ce tremissis est frappé sur un flan large et irrégulier présentant un éclatement de flan à 7 heures au droit. Léger décentrage au droit comme au revers

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.cf. 21 - R.cf. 765 - Do.cf. 13 /4 - BN/B.cf. 11 - BC.cf. 353 (100£) - MBR.cf. 11 a - DMBR.cf. 5 /7 (300€)

Predigree :

Monnaie provenant de la collection Philippe Schiesser

Obverse

Obverse legend : N IVSTI-NVS C.

Obverse description : Buste diadèmé, drapé et cuirassé de Justin II à droit.

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTVR-I - A AVG R|B// CONO.

Reverse description : Victoire debout de face, tournée à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un globe crucigère de la gauche.

Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augusutes).

Commentary

Tremissis reprenant le type de certains exemplaires de Justin II frappés entre 565-578 à Constantinople. Les deux lettres du revers (B et R rétrogrades) pourraient faire référence à Brioude (Brivate), mais d’autres villes peuvent être candidates.

Historical background

IMITATION AT THE NAME OF JUSTIN II

(15/11/565-05/10/578)

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.