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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;furryfrog02, post: 3240267, member: 41219&quot;]My son and I worked on 2 different coins today. One pertaining to this thread and another pertaining to the coins we picked up in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/first-4-from-baltimore.326063/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/first-4-from-baltimore.326063/">Baltimore</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>After seeing another post of someone asking about identification of an Anonymous Follis, to which [USER=26302]@medoraman[/USER] posted a great pdf write up about the different types of them, I thought that we could check out the coin below. We quickly realized that this was not an Anonymous Follis. </p><p><br /></p><p>Having basically zero knowledge of Byzantine coins, FFIVN and I decided to just google some of the words that we could make out on the reverse. Lucky for us, it worked out quite well and we were able to fairly easily identify the coin, ruler, date struck, and the mint:</p><p><br /></p><p>Phocas, 40 Nunmi</p><p>607-608 AD</p><p>Obv: d m FOCA PER AVG, Crowned bust facing, wearing consular robes, holding mappa and cross, crown with pendillia</p><p>Rev: XXXX; above; ANNO; to right G; NIKOB</p><p>Minted: Nikodemia</p><p>[ATTACH=full]848031[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Seems as though Phocas was a rather inept ruler. After usurping Emperor Maurice in 602, he spent the next 8 years installing his relatives in prominent positions, regardless if they were up to the task or not, and&nbsp; fighting off different rebellions. He was eventually overthrown by Heraclius in 610 and quickly executed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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