v55_0487 - PHOCAS Follis
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Follis
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,33 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, irrégulier et échancré avec les grènetis complets. Beau portrait inhabituel à l’usure très importante. Beau revers avec les traces de surfrappe visible. Patine verte granuleuse
Obverse
Obverse legend : [D M] FOCA - PER AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Phocas couronné, diadémé sans pendilia, de face tenant un scipio de la main gauche et la mappa de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANNO/ II/II //NIKO B.
Reverse description : XXXX dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : (an 4/ Nicomédie).
Commentary
Poids léger. Surfrappé sur un follis de Maurice Tibère (582-602) ? Le scipio est surmonté d’un petit aigle alors que normalement nous avons un globe crucigère.
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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