bby_610040 - JUSTIN II and SOPHIA Follis
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Type : Follis
Date: an 5
Mint name / Town : Theoupolis (Antioche)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 14,55 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très belle représentation au droit bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers de style fin
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NO.
Obverse description : Justin II et Sophie assis de face sur un double trône ; ils sont nimbés tous les deux, Justin II est à droite, tenant le sceptre de la main droite, et Sophie tient le sceptre cruciforme de la main droite ; au milieu, ils tiennent tous les deux le globe crucigère.
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - / II/III/ (DELTA)// THEUP’.
Reverse description : Grande M surmontée d'une croisette.
Reverse translation : (An 5).
Commentary
Exemplaire de beau style. Resprésentation inhabituelle pour la cinquième année.
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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