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v36_1160 - PHOCAS Solidus

PHOCAS Solidus MS
MS
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 580.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 631.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 603-606
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 4,50 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire dans un état de conservation exceptionnel sur un flan large parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers bien venu à la frappe, de haut relief. A conservé l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.-  - R.-  - Do.5 a - BN/B.-  - BC.618 (225£) - MBR.7
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de Tradart (Bruxelles)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N FOCAS - PERP AVI.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Phocas, diadémé et cuirassé de face, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AVGGA/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Ange debout de face, tenant une longue croix chrismée de la main droite et un globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).

Commentary

Sur cet exemplaire, les cheveux de Phocas semblent plus longs.
In this specimen, Phocas' hair appears longer

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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