JUSTIN I 518AD Pentanummium ChiRo Christogram Ancient Byzantine Coin NGC i89863

Description

Item:
i89863
Authentic Ancient Coin of:
Byzantine  Empire
Justin  I
- Emperor: July 10, 518 A.D. - August 1,  527 A.D. -
Bronze Pentanummium 13mm Constantinople mint: 518-527 A.D.
Reference:  Sear 75
Certification:
NGC Ancients
XF 5872352-011
D . N . IVSTINVS PP . AVG,  Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Large Chi Rho ( ☧ ); to right,  Є; to left officina letter.
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Flavius Iustinus
(c. 450 – August 1, 527), known in English as
Justin I
, was a Byzantine Emperor (518–527), who rose through the  ranks of the Byzantine army and ultimately became its emperor, in spite of  the fact he was illiterate and almost 70 years old at the time of accession.  His reign is significant for the founding of the Justinian Dynasty that  included his eminent nephew Justinian I and for the enactment of laws that  de-emphasized the influence of the old Byzantine nobility. His consort was  Empress Euphemia.
Justin was a peasant and a swineherd by occupation from the Latinophone  region of Dardania, which is part of the province of Illyricum. He was born in a  hamlet near Bederiana in Naissus (modern Niš, South Serbia). He was of  Thraco-Roman stock, and who bore, like his companions and members of his family  (Zimarchus, Dityvistus, Boraides, Bigleniza, Sabatius, etc.) a Thracian name,  and who never learned to speak more than rudimentary Greek. His sister  Vigilantia (b. ca 455) married Sabbatius and had three children: Vigilantia (b.  ca 490), married to Dulcissimus and had Praejecta (b. ca 520), married to  Artabanos (ca 515 - aft. 554), a Magister Militum of Armenian origin, and Justin  II (b. ca 520); Justinian I; and a son (b. ca 485) who was the father of General  Germanus Justinus.
As a teenager, he and two companions fled from a barbaric invasion, taking  refuge in Constantinople Anastasius I decades later. He held the rank of
comes excubitorum
at one time..
Thanks to his position commanding the only troops in the city and making  gifts of money, Justin was able to secure election as emperor in 518.
Relying upon the accounts of the historian Procopius, it often has been said  that Justinian ruled the empire in his uncle's name during the reign of Justin,  however, there is much evidence to the contrary. The information from the Secret  History of Procopius was published posthumously. Critics of Procopius (whose  work reveals a man seriously disillusioned with his rulers) have dismissed his  work as a severely biased source, being vitriolic and pornographic, but without  other sources, critics have been unable to discredit some of the assertions in  the publication. However, contrary to the secret history, Justinian was not  named as successor until less than a year before Justin's death and he spent  3,700 pounds of gold during a celebration in 520.
In 525, Justin repealed a law that effectively prohibited a member of the  senatorial class from marrying a woman from a lower class of society, including  the theatre, which was considered scandalous at the time. This edict paved the  way for Justinian to marry Theodora, a former mime actress, and eventually  resulted in a major change to the old class distinctions at the Imperial court.  She became an equal to Justinian, participating in the governance with  significant influence.
The town of Anazarbus was re-named Justinopolis in 525, in honour of Justin  I.
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