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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Heraclean Dynasty| > |Heraclius| > BZ72159
Byzantine Empire, Heraclius & Heraclius Constantine, 23 January 613 - 11 January 641 A.D.
|Heraclius|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Heraclius| |&| |Heraclius| |Constantine,| |23| |January| |613| |-| |11| |January| |641| |A.D.|, In 626, Constantinople was under siege by horde of about 80,000 Avars, Slavs, Bulgars, and other "barbarians" and a small Persian army allied with them. On 31 July, the barbarian and Persian allies launched an attack along the entire 5.7 kilometer length of the Theodosian Walls using the most current trebuchets, mobile armored shelters, and siege towers. On the walls, 12,000 well-trained Byzantine troops fought fiercely, holding off assault after assault. On 7 August the Persian fleet was destroyed while ferrying reinforcements. The Avars, having suffered terrible losses, and short of food and supplies, burned their siege engines and retreated to the Balkan Peninsula. Constantinople was saved.
BZ72159. Bronze follis, DOC II-1 184a1; Wroth BMC 269; Morrisson BnF 10/Ch/AD/05; Ratto 1481; Hahn MIB 198a; Sommer 11.85; SBCV 849, VF, 3rd offficina, Cyprus mint, weight 6.683g, maximum diameter 24.8mm, die axis 180o, 626 - 627 A.D.; obverse Martina, Heraclius, and Heraclius Constantine standing facing, each holding globus cruciger; reverse large M (40 nummi), Heraclius monogram above, ANNO left, X/U/II (year 17) right, Γ (3rd officina) below, KVΠP (Cyprus) in exergue; SOLD










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