bby_208288 - PHOCAS Decanummium

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Type : Decanummium

Date: 602-603

Mint name / Town : Carthage

Metal : copper

Diameter : 14 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 3,01 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur petit flan épais, échancré entre 3 et 5 heures. Faiblesse de frappe au droit. Très joli revers. Belle patine vert foncé

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.143 - R.1255 - Do.114 /1 - BN/B.- - BC.687 - MBR.99

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES III, n° 410 et du stock de Nadia Kapamadji (fonds Florange)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N FOCAS - PE[R AV].

Obverse description : Buste barbu consulaire couronné avec pendilia de Phocas de face.

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste.

Reverse

Reverse legend : FO-CA.

Reverse description : Grande croix ; à l'exergue X.

Reverse translation : “Focas”, (Phocas).

Commentary

Poids léger. Buste consulaire à peine visible. Revers particulièrement bien venu.

Historical background

PHOCAS

(23/11/602-5/10/610)

Phocas succeeded Maurice Tiberius who had just been assassinated while trying to flee from Constantinople and take refuge with his friend Chosroes II, king of the Sassanids. To avenge his friend, the Sassanid resumed hostilities against the Byzantines and invaded Syria and Asia Minor. He seized Caesarea of Cappadocia and Chalcedony. Meanwhile, the Avars spread across the Balkans, sowing death in their path. The Empire seemed on the verge of breaking up when a revolt broke out in Carthage, led by Heraclius and his father, Exarch of Carthage. They drove out Phocas who was executed in 610.

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bby_208288 - PHOCAS Decanummium

Obverse

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PHOCAS

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