E-auction 153-91249 - bby_365944 - PHOCAS Decanummium
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 37 € |
| Maximum bid : | 37 € |
| End of the sale : | 21 March 2016 15:19:30 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Decanummium
Date: 607-608
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,64 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan complètement échancré et irrégulier. Beau portrait. Revers bien visible. Belle patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D M F[OCA - PP A].
Obverse description : Buste couronné avec pendilia, drape et cuirassé de Phocas de face, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite et un bouclier orné d’un cavalier.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste.
Reverse
Reverse description : grand X surmonté d’une croisette.
Commentary
Ce type de buste semble complètement inédit et non signalé pour Phocas et le decanummium.
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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