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bby_210827 - PHOCAS Follis

PHOCAS Follis AU
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Price : 280.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: an 8
Mint name / Town : Theoupolis (Antioche)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,19 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Eexmplaire sur un petit flan poarfaitement centré des deux côtés. Magnifique portrtait consulaire avec un manteau richement décoré. Jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.111  - R.1243  - Do.90 /1 - BN/B.-  - BC.672  - MBR.84
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Münz Zentrum de juillet 2007

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N FOEA - NE PE AV.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire, diadémé, couronné avec pendilia de Phocas 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 perpetétuel auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - U/III//THEUP'.
Reverse description : Grande m surmontée d'une croisette.
Reverse translation : (An 8/ Theoupolis).

Commentary

Portrait et buste consulaire de toute beauté pour ce type où tous les détails vestimentaires sont visibles.

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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