Rare genuine ancient Byzantine coin Justinian I 527ad cross Thessalonica mint

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Rare genuine ancient Byzantine coin Justinian I 527ad cross Thessalonica mint:
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Original Byzantine copper coin
Justinian I. 527-565 AD.
16 nimmi (22-25mm, 6.88gm). Thessalonica mint.
Obv./ DN IVSTINIANVS PP AVG, pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right.
Rev./ Large I, officina letter to left, cross above, SP to right, mintmark TES. SB 175, DOC 98A.

offerding is for the item pictured. Original patina, tone and earthen encrustation. Lightly cleaned. Authenticity guaranteed.

Flavius Iustinus (Iunior) Augustus (c. 520 - 5 October 578) wasEastern Roman emperor from 565 to 578. He was the nephew ofJustinian I, and husband ofSophia, the niece of the late empressTheodora, and therefore member of theJustinian Dynasty. His reign is marked by war withPersia and the loss of the greater part ofItaly.

Reign

When Justinian died on November 14, 565, Justin was elevated to the imperial throne by a group of court officials claiming that Justinian had named him as his successor on his deathbed, thus passing by another possible candidate for imperial succession, a nephew of JustinianGermanus, also called Justin, who was not present in the capital at the time of the emperor\'s death.

In the first few days of his reign Justin paid his uncle\'s debts, administered justice in person, and proclaimed universal religious toleration. Contrary to his uncle, Justin relied completely on the support of the aristocratic party.

Proud of character, and faced with an empty treasury, he discontinued Justinian\'s practice of buying off potential enemies. Immediately after his accession, Justin halted the payment of subsidies to theAvars, ending a truce that had existed since 558. After the Avars and the neighbouring tribe of theLombards had combined to destroy theGepids, from whom Justin had obtained the Danube fortress ofSirmium, Avar pressure caused the Lombards to migrate West, and in568 they invadedItaly under their king Alboin. They quickly overran the Po valley, and within a few years they had made themselves masters of nearly the entire country. The Avars themselves crossed the Danube in 573 or 574, when the empire\'s attention was distracted by troubles on the Persian frontier. They were only placated by the payment of a subsidy of 60,000 silver pieces by Justin\'s successorTiberius.

The North and East frontiers were the main focus of Justin\'s attention. In 572 his refusal to pay tribute to thePersians in combination with overtures to the Turks led to a war with the Sassanid Empire. After two disastrous campaigns, in which the Persians overranSyria and captured the strategically important fortress ofDara, Justin reportedly lost his mind. The temporary fits of insanity into which he fell warned him to name a colleague. Passing over his own relatives, he raised, on the advice of Sophia, the generalTiberius to be Caesar in December 574 and withdrew into retirement. In 574, Sophia paid 45,000 solidi to Chosroes in return for a year\'s truce. Sophia and Tiberius ruled together as joint regents for four years, while Justin sank into growinginsanity. When he died in 578 Tiberius succeeded him asTiberius II Constantine.

Personal traits

The historian Previte-Orton describes Justin as \"a rigid man, dazzled by his predecessor\'s glories, to whom fell the task of guiding an exhausted, ill-defended Empire through a crisis of the first magnitude and a new movement of peoples\". Previte-Orton continues,

In foreign affairs he took the attitude of the invincible, unbending Roman, and in the disasters which his lack of realism occasioned, his reason ultimately gave way. It was foreign powers which he underrated and hoped to bluff by a lofty inflexibility, for he was well aware of the desperate state of the finances and the army and of the need to reconcile the Monophysites.\"

Speech at abdication

The tardy knowledge of his own impotence determined him to lay down the weight of the diadem; he showed some symptoms of a discerning and even magnanimous spirit when he addressed his assembly,

\"You behold\", said the emperor, \"the ensigns of supreme power. You are about to receive them, not from my hand, but from the hand of God. Honor them, and from them you will derive honor. Respect the empress your mother: you are now her son; before, you were her servant. Delight not in blood; abstain from revenge; avoid those actions by which I have incurred the public hatred; and consult the experience, rather than the example, of your predecessor. As a man, I have sinned; as a sinner, even in this life, I have been severely punished: but these servants, (and we pointed to his ministers,) who have abused my confidence, and inflamed my passions, will appear with me before the tribunal of Christ. I have been dazzled by the splendor of the diadem: be thou wise and modest; remember what you have been, remember what you are. You see around us your slaves, and your children: with the authority, assume the tenderness, of a parent. Love your people like yourself; cultivate the affections, maintain the discipline, of the army; protect the fortunes of the rich, relieve the necessities of the poor.\"

In silence and in tears, the assembly applauded the counsels, and sympathized with the repentance of their prince. Tiberius received the diadem on his knees; and Justin, who in his abdication appeared most worthy to reign, addressed the new monarch in the following words: \"If you consent, I live; if you command, I die: may the God of heaven and earth infuse into your heart whatever I have neglected or forgotten.\" The four last years of the emperor Justin were passed in tranquil obscurity: his conscience was no longer tormented by the remembrance of those duties which he was incapable of discharging; and his choice was justified by the filial reverence and gratitude of Tiberius.

Justin\'s insanityAccording toJohn of Ephesus, as Justin II slipped into the unbridled madness of his final days he was pulled through the palace on a wheeled throne, biting attendants as he passed. He reportedly ordered organ music to be played constantly throughout the palace in an attempt to soothe his frenzied mind, and it was rumoured that his taste for attendants extended as far as devouring a number of them during his reign

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