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40 Nummi - Phocas and Leontia Constantinople
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 602-604 |
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| Weight | 13 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (602-603) - RY 1 - Officina Γ - ND (602-603) - RY 1 - Officina Δ - ND (602-603) - RY 1 - Officina Ⲉ - ND (602-603) CON - RY 1 - Officina A - ND (602-603) CON - RY 1 - Officina B - ND (603-604) - RY 2 - Officina A - ND (603-604) - RY 2 - Officina B - ND (603-604) - RY 2 - Officina Γ - ND (603-604) - RY 2 - Officina Δ - ND (603-604) - RY 2 - Officina Ⲉ - |
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Phocas seized the throne in 602 by leading a military mutiny against Maurice, then had Maurice and his sons executed on the shore of the Bosphorus. Leontia, his daughter, appears on coinage almost immediately — an unusual move that signals how aggressively Phocas worked to project dynastic legitimacy despite having none. The Constantinople mint was the first to incorporate her image, and these early joint issues predate the later provincial adaptations by Antioch and other eastern mints.
His reign lasted only eight years before Heraclius arrived from Carthage and had Phocas executed in turn, in 610.