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Byzantine Nicomedia, Bithynia (498 - 627)

The Nicomedia mint reopenned after Anastasius' reform of 498 to assist in issuing the new denominations of copper coinage and closed in 627. Situated on the roads leading to the capital, Nicomedia was a major military base, important in the Byzantine campaigns against the Caliphate. By the 9th century much of the city, except for a hilltop citadel, was abandoned and in ruins. Nicomedia was twice blockaded by the Ottomans (in 1304 and 1330) before finally succumbing in 1337.

Byzantine Empire, Focas, 23 November 602 - 5 October 610 A.D.

|Focas|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Focas,| |23| |November| |602| |-| |5| |October| |610| |A.D.||half| |follis|
In 603, the senate acclaimed the statues of emperor Phocas and empress Leontia. This trivial event was the last ever mention of the Roman Senate in the Gregorian Register. The institution must have vanished by 630 when the Curia was transformed into a church by Pope Honorius I. The Senate at Constantinople continued to exist in the Eastern Roman Empire's capital until at least the mid-14th century when the ancient institution finally vanished from history.
BZ37473. Bronze half follis, Ratto 1231; DOC II-1 63a (not in the collection, refs. Ratto); Tolstoi 98 (no officina) Hahn MIB 73a; SBCV 663; Sommer 9.42; Morrisson BnF -, EF, weight 6.657 g, maximum diameter 26.3 mm, die axis 180o, 1st officina, Nicomedia (Izmit, Turkey) mint, 603 - 604 A.D.; obverse d N FOCA PER AVG, crowned bust facing, wearing consular robes, mappa in right hand, cross in left hand; reverse large XX (20 nummi), cross above, II (year 2) right, NIKOA in exergue; SOLD







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