bby_210824 - PHOCAS Tremissis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Tremissis
Date: 602-607
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, légèrement voilé, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection N. K. (Nadia Kapamadji, maison Florange), vente Bourgey, 27-29 octobre 1992, n° 215
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FOCAS - PERP AVG.
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 AVG/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Focas Augusti”, (La Victoire des Phocas auguste).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Au revers, petite croix.
Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. On the reverse, a small cross
Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. On the reverse, a small cross
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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