bby_381090 - PHOCAS Solidus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 650.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 609-610
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 4,43 g.
Officine: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré. Beau portrait particulier de Phocas. Revers tréflé avec une trace de double frappe. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.22 - R.- - Do.10 j6 - BN/B.26 - BC.620 (225£) - SB.- - RGCMW.102 b - DMBR.9 /10 (550€) - MBR.11
Obverse
Obverse legend : D NN FOCAS - PERP AVG.
Obverse description : Buste couronné, diadémé et cuirassé de Phocas 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 : VICTORIA - AVGY I// 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 Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
Tace de double frappe au revers. Style très particulier au revers. D’après H. J. Berk, ce type de solidus avec d NN serait à dater de la fin du règne de Phocas, vers 609-610.
Double-struck mark on the reverse. Very distinctive style on the reverse. According to HJ Berk, this type of solidus with d NN would date from the end of the reign of Phocas, around 609-610
Double-struck mark on the reverse. Very distinctive style on the reverse. According to HJ Berk, this type of solidus with d NN would date from the end of the reign of Phocas, around 609-610
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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