bby_272942 - PHOCAS Follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 95.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: an 5
Mint name / Town : Constantinopl
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,23 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, ovale et irrégulier, large, bien centré des deux côtés. Usure importante, mais lisible et identifiable. Patine marron granuleuse
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock Baldwin, 1974
Obverse
Obverse legend : D M FOCA - PER AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Phocas couronné, diadémé avec pendilia, de face tenant une croix 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/Y// CON A.
Reverse description : XXXX dans le champ.
Reverse translation : (an 5/ Constantinople).
Commentary
Poids léger. Surfrappé sur un follis de Justin II (565-578).
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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