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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Heraclean Dynasty| > |Heraclius| > BZ65907
Byzantine Empire, Heraclius, 5 October 610 - 11 January 641 A.D.
|Heraclius|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Heraclius,| |5| |October| |610| |-| |11| |January| |641| |A.D.|, Heraclius' cousin and local governor, Nicetas, was unable to effectively resist when the Sassanid Persian shah, Khusro II, invaded Egypt in 617 or 618. He and the Chalcedonian patriarch, John V, fled from Alexandria to Cyprus. After the fall of Alexandria, the Persians extended their rule southwards along the Nile and by 621 the province was securely in Persian hands. After Heraclius decisively defeated Khusro in 627 at the Battle of Nineveh, Shahrbaraz was ordered to evacuate the Egypt, but he refused. Heraclius, trying both to recover Egypt and to sow disunion amongst the Persians, offered to help Shahrbaraz seize the Persian throne for himself. An agreement was reached, and in the summer of 629, the Persian troops began leaving Egypt.
BZ65907. Bronze six nummi, DOC II-1 198, Wroth BMC 309, Morrisson BnF 10/Al/AE/69, Ratto 1326, Tolstoi 118, Hahn MIB 210, Sommer 11.98, SBCV 862, VF, Alexandria mint, weight 2.386g, maximum diameter 12.4mm, die axis 0o, 613 - 618 A.D.; obverse dd m hERACLS (or similar, blundered), cross potent on two steps; reverse large S; scarce; SOLD










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