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bby_266762 - PHOCAS Tremissis

PHOCAS Tremissis MS
MS
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Tremissis
Date: 607-609
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Phocas. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Conserve la plus plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.30  - R.1206  - Do.19  - BN/B.32  - BC.634 (120£) - MBR.27  - DMBR.9 /21 (300€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N FOCAS - PER AVI.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Phocas de droite (A’a); diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTORI FOCAS AVS -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Focas Augusti”, (La Victoire des Phocas auguste).

Commentary

Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Césure de légende de droit inhabituelle.

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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