bby_208916 - PHOCAS Solidus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 603-606
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 4,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Faiblesse de frappe au revers sur la tête de l’ange. A conservé la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 32, n° 768
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”, (Victoire des augustes).
Commentary
Couronne sans pendilia. Faiblesse de frappe sur la tête de l’ange au revers. Trace de cassure de coin perceptible dans la légende du revers.
Crown without pendilia. Weak strike on the angel's head on the reverse. Trace of die breakage visible in the reverse legend
Crown without pendilia. Weak strike on the angel's head on the reverse. Trace of die breakage visible in the reverse legend
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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