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10 Nummi - Mauricius Tiberius Antioch
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 582-602 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Antioch (Theopolis) |
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Mauricius Tiberius inherited an empire financially exhausted by decades of war with Persia and a military that had grown accustomed to demanding payment it often didn't receive. His reign ended in 602 when the Danubian troops, furious over a cost-cutting order to winter north of the river rather than return home at state expense, mutinied under a junior officer named Phocas and marched on Constantinople. Mauricius was captured and executed along with his sons.
The Antioch mint — known in Byzantine sources as Theoupolis after its refounding — was overrun by the Persians in 611, making issues from this facility terminal survivors of a city that would not return to Roman hands for decades.