bby_234243 - PHOCAS Quarante Nummi
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 45.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 45.00 €
Type : Quarante Nummi
Date: an 5
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 10,77 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure très importante, mais lisible et identifiable. Patine marron granuleuse et grattée
Obverse
Obverse legend : D M FOCAS - PER AVG.
Obverse description : Buste couronné avec pendilia, diadémé, vêtu de la robe consulaire, tenant un globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANNO/Y//CON A.
Reverse description : Grand XXXX.
Reverse translation : (An 5).
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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