v20_0123 - BYZANTINE - SASANIAN OCCUPATION - KHOSROW II Douze nummi ou Dodecanummium

BYZANTINE - SASANIAN OCCUPATION - KHOSROW II Douze nummi ou Dodecanummium AU

MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 265.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 310.00 €

Type : Douze nummi ou Dodecanummium

Date: 618-628

Mint name / Town : Alexandria

Metal : copper

Diameter : 18 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 7,49 g.

Coments on the condition:

Beau portrait sur un flan large et épais. Revers de haut relief

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.277 - R.1316 - Do.191 /22 - BN/B.- - BC.855

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Buste couronné et cuirassé de Chosroès II de face avec pendilia accosté d’une étoile à huit rais à gauche et d’un croissant de lune à droite.

Reverse

Reverse legend : À L'EXERGUE.

Reverse description : Grand I-B ; au milieu, croix globulée posée sur un degré.

Reverse legend : ALEX.

Historical background

BYZANTINE - SASANIAN OCCUPATION - KHOSROW II

(590-628)

Chosroes II (Khusro) is the grandson of Chosroes I (531-579) and the enemy of Justinian I (527-565). Successor of his father Hormizd IV (579-590), he was the last great Sassanid king. Allied with Maurice Tiberius (582-602) and learning of the assassination of the latter, he invaded the Byzantine Empire but the Sassanid kingdom succumbed under the combined blows of the Byzantines who won a great victory in 628, the Avars and especially the Muslims. Omar (634-644), Commander of the Faithful, takes Ctesiphon in 636 and Jerusalem two years later. The last Sasanian king was overthrown in 651.