v26_0516 - PHOCAS Follis
MONNAIES 26 (2006)
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 100.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 100.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Follis
Date: an 5
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 36 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large. Frappe faible et molle au droit avec trace de surfrappe visible. Joli revers avec une magnifique patine vert noir
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du fonds Kapamadji
Obverse
Obverse legend : [D M FOCA] - PER [AVG].
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Phocas couronné, diadémé avec pendilia, de face tenant un globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuusaugustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANNO/Y//NIKO A.
Reverse description : XXXX.
Reverse translation : (an 5).
Commentary
Surfrappé sur un follis plus ancien de l’atelier de Nicomédie.
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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