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v55_0483 - PHOCAS Solidus

PHOCAS Solidus MS
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
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Type : Solidus
Date: 603-607
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,44 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, irrégulier, légèrement décentré au droit. Très beau portrait de Phocas. Joli revers de style fin. 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 AVGGI/ -|-// 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


Buste fin et allongé. 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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