bby_808252 - PHOCAS Follis
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Type : Follis
Date: an 8
Mint name / Town : Theoupolis (Antioche)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,74 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan de forme irrégulière. Usure importante, mais un buste reconnaissable de Phocas. Revers bien lisible. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FOCA - NE PE A.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire, diadémé, couronné avec pendilia de Phocas de face, tenant la mappa de la main droite et le scipio de la main gauch.
Obverse translation : (Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus.
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N/N/O - II/II//THEUP'.
Reverse description : Grande m surmontée d'une croisette.
Reverse translation : (An 4/ Theoupolis).
Commentary
Poids très léger.
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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