bby_880805 - JUSTIN II Demi-silique
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Type : Demi-silique
Date: c. 572-578
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 0,81 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, échancré à 3 heures à l’usure régulière. Belle patine de collection ancienne
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS PP AV.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Justin II à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinianus Perpetuus ”, (Notre seigneur Justinien perpétuel).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CN.
Reverse description : Deux lettres dans une couronne fermée par une croisette ; une croisette au-dessus.
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Buste orné de trois globules transversaux sur le paludamentum.
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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