bby_210830 - PHOCAS Demi-follis
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Price : 35.00 €
Type : Demi-follis
Date: an 5
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 9,45 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, épais et décentré. Usure très importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acheté en décembre 1986
Obverse
Obverse legend : D M FO-CAS PER AI.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Phocas couronné, diadémé avec pendilia, de face, tenant un croix de la main gauche et la mappa de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : *X°XE// KRTS.
Reverse description : XX surmonté d'une croisette.
Reverse translation : (an 5).
Commentary
Poids excessivement. Marque de démonétisation ou coup transversal sur le cou de Phocas.
Excessive weight. Demonetization mark or transverse blow on Phocas' neck
Excessive weight. Demonetization mark or transverse blow on Phocas' neck
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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