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Byzantine Empire, Heraclius & Heraclius Constantine, 23 January 613 - 11 January 641 A.D.
The Byzantine-Sassanid War ended with a Byzantine victory in 628, but the war, after a century of nearly continuous conflict, left both empires crippled. The Persians suffering economic decline, heavy taxation, religious unrest, dynastic turmoil and other social problems, plunged into civil war. The Byzantines had exhausted their treasure, the Balkans had been largely lost to the Slavs, and Anatolia was devastated. Neither empire was given any chance to recover, as within a few years they were struck by the onslaught of the Arabs, newly united by Islam. The Sassanid Empire would soon be completely destroyed. The Muslim conquest of Syria, Egypt and North Africa, would reduce the Byzantine Empire to a territorial rump consisting of Anatolia and a scatter of islands and footholds in the Balkans and Italy.BZ37092. Bronze 12 nummi, DOC II-1, 193; Wroth BMC 287; Morrisson BnF 52; Tolstoi 306; Ratto 1443; Hahn MIB 203; Sommer 11.94; SBCV 857, VF, flat strike, Egypt, Alexandria mint, weight 7.609g, maximum diameter 17.6mm, die axis 225o, 625 - 629 A.D.; obverse facing busts of Heraclius, with a short beard, and his son Heraclius Constantine, each wears a chlamys and a crown with a cross and pendilia, cross potent on steps between them; reverse large IB (12 nummi) divided by cross potent on globe on triangular base, AΛΕΞ (Alexandria) in exergue; SOLD
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