bby_216380 - JUSTIN II Demi-follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2009)
Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2009)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Demi-follis
Date: an 1
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,70 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier. Très beau portrait. Frappe brouillée au revers. Patine vert olive foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS PP AVI.
Obverse description : Buste couronné et cuirassé de Justin II de face, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite et un bouclier orné d’un cavalier de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - I/ TES.
Reverse description : Grand K surmonté d'une croisette.
Reverse translation : (An 1/ Thessalonique).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Première année de frappe. Ce type à été frappé de l’an 1 à l’an 6. Il n’y a pas d’officine pour ce type qui semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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