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bby_411604 - PHOCAS Follis

PHOCAS Follis XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan extrêmement large avec les grènetis complets. Frappe légèrement brouillée sur la légende au droit. Très joli revers. Patine noire
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.-  - R.-  - Do.- a1 - BN/B.  - BC.658 var. - MBR.69 a var. - DMBR.9 /37 (800€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D M FOCA - [PER AV].
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Phocas couronné, diadémé sans pendilia, de face tenant un scipio de la main gauche et la mappa de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuusaugustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANNO/II/II/ /NIKO B.
Reverse description : XXXX dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : (an 4/ Nicomédie).

Commentary

Poids léger. Surfrappé sur un follis de Maurice Tibère (582-602).

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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