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Author Topic: Is this a Phocas or Tiberius II coin?  (Read 297 times)

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Offline Rwy R

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Is this a Phocas or Tiberius II coin?
« on: May 05, 2026, 12:42:40 pm »
Hello. I've made another post here before, requesting help about some coins I had to catalogue.
This is one of them. It is clean but I don't recognize this text, I'm still learning, so if it is extremely obvious please don't make fun of me...



Attachments part doesn't work (again just like my previous post), I uploaded the image to a public image host.

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Re: Is this a Phocas or Tiberius II coin?
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2026, 02:39:56 am »

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Re: Is this a Phocas or Tiberius II coin?
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2026, 08:57:18 am »
The legends for the Antioch Mint during the reign of Maurice Tiberius became rather suddenly garbled and unintelligible. It is hard to pinpoint the specific cause. There was a major earthquake in Antioch in 526. The city was hit with the Justinianic plague in 540. The city was affected by chronic war with the Sasanians. And literacy in Latin was diminishing over time. But the legends took a nosedive in the 580s, even though other aspects of the engraving maintained the previous standards of quality.

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Re: Is this a Phocas or Tiberius II coin?
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2026, 12:00:52 pm »
Quote from: Obryzum on May 08, 2026, 08:57:18 am
The legends for the Antioch Mint during the reign of Maurice Tiberius became rather suddenly garbled and unintelligible. It is hard to pinpoint the specific cause. There was a major earthquake in Antioch in 526. The city was hit with the Justinianic plague in 540. The city was affected by chronic war with the Sasanians. And literacy in Latin was diminishing over time. But the legends took a nosedive in the 580s, even though other aspects of the engraving maintained the previous standards of quality.

Ooohh! I didn't know that. So "blundered legend" term is mostly used for coins like this then?
Amazing. I'm glad I came to ask, otherwise I'd be still searching for the text *I was able to make out* hahah.
Actually I went through DOC I too but I guess I missed...

 

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