bby_734822 - PHOCAS Demi-follis

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Type : Demi-follis

Date: 603-604

Mint name / Town : Cyzicus

Metal : copper

Diameter : 24 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : 5,65 g.

Rarity : R1

Officine: 1re

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire centré à l’usure régulière. Joli buste. Patine marron

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.- - R.- - Do.82 a - BN/B.- - BC.669 - MBR.80 b - DMBR.9 /51

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N FOCAS - PERP AVC.

Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Phocas couronné, diadémé avec pendilia, de face, tenant la mappa de la main droite et le globe crucigère de la main gauche.

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

Reverse

Reverse legend : KYZA À L’EXERGUE.

Reverse description : XX surmonté d'une étoile à huit rais.

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.

PHOCAS Demi-follis XF

120.00 €

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PHOCAS Demi-follis VF/XF

bby_734822 - PHOCAS Demi-follis

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Historical background

PHOCAS

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

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