v38_1398 - PHOCAS Solidus
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 477.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 600.00 €
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 477.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 600.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 603-606
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 4,50 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 8e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de style fin, bien venu à la frappe comme le revers. Frappe fine. Conserve encore une partie de son brillant de frappe
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FOCAS - PERP AVG.
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 AVGGH/ -|-// 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”, (La Victoire des augustes).
Commentary
Sans pendillia. Visage fin et triangulaire.
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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