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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Justinian Dynasty| > |Justin II| > BZ72156
Byzantine Empire, Justin II and Sophia, 15 November 565 - 5 October 578 A.D.
|Justin| |II|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Justin| |II| |and| |Sophia,| |15| |November| |565| |-| |5| |October| |578| |A.D.|, Normal examples of this type, without a retrograde mark of value, are rare. Sear notes retrograde examples exist and Paris has the one retrograde example we reference. There is one retrograde example on Coin Archives (from a different reverse die).

Bellinger notes in DOC I, "This issue, which recalls the Victory decanummia of Justinian (supra, Justinian No. 304), struck at the time that Tiberius Constantine was created Caesar, was doubtless intended to celebrate the peace in Africa with which his administration began, by an understandable hyperbole converting peace to victory.
BZ72156. Bronze half follis, Morrisson BnF 33; SBCV 396; DOC I 203 var.; Wroth BMC 266 ff. var.; Sommer 5.56 var.; Hahn MIB I 77 var.; Ratto 910 f. var. (all var. none retrograde), aVF, rough, Carthage (near Tunis, Tunisia) mint, weight 9.523g, maximum diameter 24.3mm, die axis 90o, 572 - 578 A.D.; obverse D N IVSTINO ET SOFIE AG, Justin (on left) and Sopia seated facing on double throne, cross between them, VITA in exergue; reverse two Victories standing confronted holding between them a shield ornamented with a star, cross above, retrograde K over retrograde MN below; first example of this type handled by Forum!; very rare; SOLD










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