Live auction - bby_381404 - PHOCAS Solidus
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| Estimate : | 850 € |
| Price : | 550 € |
| Maximum bid : | 570 € |
| End of the sale : | 01 March 2016 15:11:47 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Solidus
Date: 603-607
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,47 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Phocas. Joli revers de style fin, à l’épigraphie élégante, mais de frappe un peu molle en bordure périphérique sur la légende. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : O N FOCAS - PERP AVI.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Phocas, diadémé et cuirassé de face, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AVGG(GAMMA)/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Ange debout de face, tenant une longue croix chrismée de la main droite et un globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (Victoire des augustes).
Commentary
Un seul exemplaire au Dumbarton Oak Collection. Ce type semble en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Couronne avec diadème ligné. Cuirasse invisible sous le paludamentum. Sans pendilia.
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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