bby_1003131 - JUSTIN II Follis
165.00 €(Approx. 179.85$ | 138.60£)
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Type : Follis
Date: an 11
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 17,77 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier centré à l’usure plus marquée au droit qu’au revers. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : [D N IVSTINI-NVS PP AV].
Obverse description : Buste casqué, diadémé et cuirassé de face, tenant un globe crucigère et un bouclier orné d’un cavalier.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iustinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Justin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - *I*// .
Reverse description : Grand M surmonté d'une croisette.
Reverse legend : G// tHEuR
Reverse translation : (An 1/ Antioche).
Commentary
Ce type est encore inspiré de celui de Justinien Ier.
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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