bby_209018 - JUSTIN II Tremissis
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Price : 195.00 €
Type : Tremissis
Date: 565-578
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,43 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier. Très beau portrait. Frappe un peu faible au revers. Bel exemplaire
Obverse
Obverse legend : DN IVSTI-NVS PP AVI.
Obverse description : Buste diadèmé, drapé et cuirassé de Justin II à droite vu de trois quarts en avant.
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA AVGVSTORV// -|*//CONOB.
Reverse description : Victoire debout de face, tournée à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un globe crucigère de la gauche.
Commentary
Exemplaire de bon style à l’épigraphie élégante.
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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