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v43_1090 - PHOCAS Solidus

PHOCAS Solidus AU
AU
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 361.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 361.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 607-610
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 4,38 g.
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large. Beau portrait. Une rayure dans le champ à droite. Ange bien venu au revers. Jolie patine
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.109  - R.1181  - Do.10 e - BN/B.-  - BC.620 (225£) - SB.257  - RGCMW.102 a - RN. 2002/32 (23 ex.) - RBN. 1972/17 (10 ex.)
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de TRÉSORS II, n° 141, 295€ avec six ordres (exemplaire n° 4 du trésor d’Apamée sur l’Oronte)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N 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 - AVGYE/ -|-// 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

Trace de surfrappe perceptible sous le buste de Phocas. Graffiti au droit , dans le champ à droite, non identifiable.

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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