bby_212562 - JUSTIN II Decanummium
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 45.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 45.00 €
Type : Decanummium
Date: 566-572
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,93 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, légèrement décentré. Usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-[NVS - PP].
Obverse description : Buste casqué et cuirassé de Justin II de face.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel).
Reverse
Reverse legend : V/S - [TI]/NI.
Reverse description : Grand I.
Commentary
Poids très léger. Parfois, les lettres accostant la marque de valeur peuvent être rétrogrades.
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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