Live auction - bby_610797 - JUSTINIAN II Solidus
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| Estimate : | 7 000 € |
| Price : | 4 750 € |
| Maximum bid : | 4 750 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 September 2020 15:27:41 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Solidus
Date: 692-695
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de toute beauté sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Magnifique buste du Christ, expressif, bien venu à la frappe. Petite faiblesse sur la croix au revers. La monnaie a conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CHRISTOS REX - REGNANTIYM.
Obverse description : Buste du Christ de face avec la croix, barbu, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : D IYSTINI-AN-YS SERY CHRISTI A // CONOB.
Reverse description : Justinien debout de face, couronné, vêtu du loros, tenant une longue croix potencée posée sur deux degrés de la main droite.
Reverse translation : (Notre seigneur Justinien serviteur du Christ).
Commentary
Première apparition du buste du Christ dans le monnayage byzantin.
Historical background
JUSTINIAN II
(07/10/685-11/4/711)
First reign
Justinian II, son of Constantine IV, succeeded his father in 685, at the age of sixteen. An advantageous peace with the Muslims enabled him to devote himself to the Balkan problem, which he dealt with by massively deporting Slavs to Asia Minor where he settled them, following the example of his grandfather, Constans II. In 695, he was overthrown by a palace plot, led by General Léonce. Justinian II was saved, but his nose and tongue were cut off. Mutilated, he was sent into exile in Cherson from where he escaped. He took refuge with the Tsar of the Khazars and prepared his revenge but had to flee under pressure from Tiberius III Aspimar to find refuge with Tervel, the khan of the Bulgarians. He returned victorious to Byzantium in the summer of 705 at the head of a barbarian army and savagely took revenge on Leonce and Tiberius III by having them executed. He reigned terror for six years before being murdered along with his six-year-old son Tiberius, ending the Heracliid dynasty. He is known for his religious orthodoxy and the introduction of the representation of Christ on coins.
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