bby_365248 - JUSTIN II Demi-follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Demi-follis
Date: 565-566
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 9,11 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très épais, ovale et irrégulier. Usure très importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine gris foncé granuleuse
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTINVS PP I.
Obverse description : Grand buste de Justin II casqué et cuirassé de face, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite et un bouclier de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste.
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O/ PR// CART.
Reverse description : Grand K surmonté d’une croisette et une étoile au-dessous.
Commentary
De la plus grande rareté avec la marque PR pour Primo (première). Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de W. Hahn, p. 126, n° v75.
Historical background
JUSTIN II
(11/15/565-10/5/578)
Justin, 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 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. He was associated as august in September 578. Justin died on October 5.
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