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Solidus - Phocas VICTORIA AVGG, Constantinopolis
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 603-607 |
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| Currency | First Solidus Nomisma (498-720) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Emperor Phocas in military attire, wearing a crown surmounted by a cross and adorned with pendilia, with a short bearded effigy rendered in the hieratic Byzantine frontal style. The emperor holds a cross on globe in his right hand and a mappa or eagle-tipped sceptre in his left, dressed in an elaborately detailed consular or imperial chlamys with fibula visible at the right shoulder. The legend D N FOCAS PRP AVI runs around the periphery in Latin capitals, divided between the left and right fields. |
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| Reverse description | Standing frontal figure of Victory, winged and nimbed, holding a long staff surmounted by a cross (staurogram) in each hand, positioned centrally between two smaller figures or columns. The composition is rendered in the characteristic flat, hieratic style of early Byzantine coinage. The legend VICTORIA AVG` B appears divided in the left and right fields, with the mint mark CONOB inscribed in the exergue, denoting the Constantinople mint and gold of high fineness. The officina letter B identifies this as the product of the second workshop. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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