v32_0757 - JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Demi-follis
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
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Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Demi-follis
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 6,81 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et irrégulier. Bien venu au droit. Joli revers. patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS PP AV.
Obverse description : Justin et Sophie assis de face sur un double trône ; ils sont nimbés tous les deux ; Justin est à droite, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite et elle, à gauche, tient le sceptre cruciforme de la main droite ; au milieu au-dessus, une croix.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - IIII/ A.
Reverse description : Grand K surmonté d'une croisette .
Commentary
Cet exemplaire présente la particularité d’avoir l’an 4 marqué en ligne (IIII) ce qui semble plus rare que superposée (II/II). Dans l’ouvrage de Grierson (Do.) seule la cinquième officine était signalée.
Historical background
JUSTIN II and SOPHIA
(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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