bby_295568 - PHOCAS Demi-follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Demi-follis
Date: an
Date: 602-603
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,48 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré. Beau portrait de Phocas à l’usure importante. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FO-CAS - PERP AVG.
Obverse description : Buste couronné avec pendilia, diadémé et cuirassé de Phocas de face, tenantglobe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O -I// TES À L’EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Grand K surmonté d'une croisette.
Commentary
Atleier rare. Première année de frappe.
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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