bby_610088 - PHOCAS Follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 250.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Cyzicus
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,73 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Magnifique portrait consulaire. Joli revers de style fin. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FOCAS - PER AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Phocas couronné, diadémé avec pendilia, de face tenant une croix de la main gauche et la mappa de la main droite ; dans le champ à gauche, une croisette.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuusaugustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANNO/ II/II// KYZ.
Reverse description : XXXX dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : D.
Reverse translation : (an 6/ Cyzique).
Commentary
Poids léger. La date est ordonnancée en II/II mais se rencontre aussi sous la forme IIII.
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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