bby_557827 - PHOCAS Tremissis

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Type : Tremissis

Date: 607-609

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰

Diameter : 16 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,45 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Bel exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré. Joli buste ainsi qu’un beau revers de style fin

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.

Historical background

PHOCAS

(23/11/602-5/10/610)

Phocas succeeded Maurice Tiberius, who had been killed trying to flee from Constantinople and take refuge in 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 grabbed Caesarea in Cappadocia and Chalcedony. Meanwhile, the Avars spread in the Balkans, spreading death in their wake. 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 Phocas who was executed in 610.

bby_557827 - PHOCAS Tremissis

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Historical background

PHOCAS

(23/11/602-5/10/610)

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