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Receive this in the mail today, a very nice AE follis of the emperor Phocas. AE Follis Emperor Phocas 602-610 AD Obverse: Crowned bust facing, wearing consular robes and holding mappa and eagle tipped sceptre. Reverse: Large lower case M (for 40 ) ANN. on left Regnal 8 on right (610 AD), with mint mark of THEUP (for Antioch mint). 9.8 grams x 27 mm Sear 672.   Here is some more info on him from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocas |
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Pillar of the Community
Italy
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Nice coin , horrible emperor .
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Yeah, he was the Caligula of the Byzantine empire.
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Pillar of the Community
Italy
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Here is a follis of Phocas's predecessor for comparison.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2480 Posts |
The mailman was good to you today :)
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United States
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Yeah he was, got the two coins for under $22.
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice clear coin and nicely cleaned. While I consider the Byzantine series as quite boring overall, there are a few interesting things about those (apart from getting one of each emperor): 1. quite affordable coins 2. often well dated (allows to fill gaps in my 'year' series) - btw, send me your coin, missing that year  3. sometimes challenging to identify with all those overstrikes 4. quite a range of mints covering some history Guess 'echizento' you are branching out into the Latin Empire, the Empire of Nicaea and related crusader coinage/early arabian as well? |
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I have no set area of collecting. I collected Roman coins for a long time to the point where they started to bore me. I've collected Byzantine coin also for a long time and have had one or two extremely rare examples. One of which sold for a nicely sum a few years back to a well known author on ancient coins. Over the last year or so I've gotten very interested in the Eastern empires thanks to my good friend Anoob. But mostly when I find a coin that I like and can afford it doesn't matter what empire it's from.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Edited by Ancientnoob
10/05/2014 12:19 am
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Seems you want to see some other examples of those Byzantine emperors, so here my half-way decent examples. First Sear#640, a "XXXX" follis from Year 7, Constantinople mint off Gamma:   |
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Pillar of the Community
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This one is Sear#668, a Half Follis from the Cyzicus mint off.B:   |
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And finally Sear#671, a Follis from Year 3 minted at Theoupolis ('Ancientnoob' should approve of this  ):   Here the obverse shows Phocas on the left and Leontia on the right. |
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United States
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nice coins ski...especially for 22 bucks! I just posted several byzantine coins in VK's thread, including my favorite coin from the antioch/theopolis mint (with a crazy mint mark). but I didn't post this guy...my only phocas.   |
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Posted 10/04/2014 7:05 pm
