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Solidus - Heraclius, Heraclius Constantine and Heraclonas VICTORIA AVGU, Constantinopolis
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 638-641 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A potent cross set upon a three-tiered stepped base (cross-on-steps) occupies the center of the reverse field, rendered in bold hammered relief. A christogram (rho-cross monogram) appears to the right of the cross shaft. The circular legend VICTORIA AVGU is distributed around the outer border in Latin script, with the mint and officina mark CONOB inscribed in the exergue, denoting the Constantinople mint and certifying the coin's fine gold standard. |
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| Mint | Constantinople |
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Heraclonas was elevated to co-emperor in 638, likely at the insistence of his mother Martina, Heraclius's niece-wife — a union the Byzantine clergy had condemned as incestuous from the start. The three-figure solidus therefore dates to a narrow three-year window defined as much by dynastic maneuvering as by the catastrophic Arab conquests unfolding simultaneously in Syria and Egypt. Heraclius died in February 641 having lost Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria within a decade of having personally recovered them from Persia.
Heraclonas's own reign lasted months before the Senate had his nose cut off and exiled him to Rhodes.