v08_0766 - PHOCAS Demi-follis
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
unsold lot
Type : Demi-follis
Date: an 5
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,70 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au droit
Obverse
Obverse legend : D M FO-CAS PER AI.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Phocas couronné, diadémé avec pendilia, de face, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : *X°XE// KRTS.
Reverse description : XX surmonté d'une croisette.
Reverse translation : (an 5).
Commentary
Poids léger. Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié pour le type.
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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