v41_1490 - PHOCAS Tremissis
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 155.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 155.00 €
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 155.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 155.00 €
Type : Tremissis
Date: 602-607
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,51 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, légèrement stylisé. Très beau portrait inhabituel. Revers un peu brouillé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FOCAS - P P AVC.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Phocas de droite (A’a); diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI FOCAS AVI/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Focas Augusti”, (La Victoire des Phocas auguste).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges visibles des deux côtés. Portrait stylisé. Épigraphie approximative.
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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