Byzanz: Phocas

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Events

Created

When	606-607 CE [About]
Where	Rome

Commissioned

Who	Phocas (547-610)

Was depicted (Actor)

Who	Phocas (547-610)

Relation to places

Italy

Keywords

20 Nummi Bronze Coin Early Middle Ages Early Middle Ages Empress Middle Ages Portrait

Description

Front: Drapierte Panzerbüste des Phocas mit Krone in der Vorderansicht. In seiner r. Hand ein Kreuz auf Globus.
Rear: Wertzahl XX, darüber ein Kreuz, über Münzstättenkürzel.

Inscription

Vorderseite: D N OFCA-S PP AVG (Sic! Dominus Noster Focas (Phokas) Perpetuus Augustus)
Rückseite: XX // ROM

Similar objects

MIB II Phocas: 107

Material/Technique

Bronze; struck

Measurements

Diameter: 20 mm
Weight: 6.21 g

Literature

D. R. Sear, Byzantine coins and their values ²(1987) 155 Nr. 694.
Ph. Grierson, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection II-1 (1968) 201 Nr. 121 (Rom, 603-610?).
W. Hahn - M. Metlich, Money of the incipient Byzantine empire continued (2009) 200 Nr. 107 A Taf. 37 (dieses Stück, Rom, ca. 606-607?).
W. Hahn, Moneta Imperii Byzantini II (1975) 83 Nr. 107 Taf. 36 (dieses Stück, Rom, 604-605?).