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OSTROGOTHS. Italy. Athalaric (AD 526-540). AV solidus (21mm, 4.45 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Rome, 1st officina, in the name of Justinian I, ca. AD 527-530. D N IVSTINI-ANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust of Justinian I facing, head slightly right, spear in right hand over shoulder, shield with horseman motif in left / VICTOR-I-A AVGGG A, Victory standing facing, head left, long jeweled cross with horizontal crossbar in right hand; star in left field, COMOB in exergue, two pellets at each end of exergual line. Metlich 34 var. (exergual decorations). Superb remnant detailing of the sharp late-Imperial designs.
Even as Rome slipped under control of the Ostrogothic King Theodoric, its mint continued to strike gold coins in the name of the East Roman emperors, preserving the fiction that the Amali monarch ruled as viceroy of a united Empire. Athalaric, the grandson of Theodoric, succeeded to the Ostrogothic throne at the age of 10 in AD 526. His mother, Amalasuntha, was pro-Roman and cozied up to Constantinople, much to the dismay of the Ostrogothic nobility. The relationship grew even closer after Justinian I the Great came to power in Constantinople in 527, but Athalaric's heavy drinking led to his early death in AD 534, setting the stage for a revolt by the anti-Roman nobles and the catastrophic Ostrogothic-Byzantine war that followed.
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OSTROGOTHS. Italy. Athalaric (AD 526-540). AV solidus (21mm, 4.45 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Rome, 1st officina, in the name of Justinian I, ca. AD 527-530. D N IVSTINI-ANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust of Justinian I facing, head slightly right, spear in right hand over shoulder, shield with horseman motif in left / VICTOR-I-A AVGGG A, Victory standing facing, head left, long jeweled cross with horizontal crossbar in right hand; star in left field, COMOB in exergue, two pellets at each end of exergual line. Metlich 34 var. (exergual decorations). Superb remnant detailing of the sharp late-Imperial designs.
Even as Rome slipped under control of the Ostrogothic King Theodoric, its mint continued to strike gold coins in the name of the East Roman emperors, preserving the fiction that the Amali monarch ruled as viceroy of a united Empire. Athalaric, the grandson of Theodoric, succeeded to the Ostrogothic throne at the age of 10 in AD 526. His mother, Amalasuntha, was pro-Roman and cozied up to Constantinople, much to the dismay of the Ostrogothic nobility. The relationship grew even closer after Justinian I the Great came to power in Constantinople in 527, but Athalaric's heavy drinking led to his early death in AD 534, setting the stage for a revolt by the anti-Roman nobles and the catastrophic Ostrogothic-Byzantine war that followed.
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HID02906262019
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