v32_0769 - PHOCAS Vingt nummi
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Vingt nummi
Date: an
Date: 603-610
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,11 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FO-CA PERP AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Phocas couronné, diadémé avec pendilia, de face, tenant la mappa de la main droite et le globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CON À L’EXERGUE.
Reverse description : XX surmonté d'une croisette.
Reverse legend : D
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, la mappa ressemble à l’akakia.
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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