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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 2203775, member: 74222&quot;]Maurice Tiberius was an excellent emperor and I was deeply sad when I first time read about how he ended his last days and what he witnessed at the end. He managed to establish a solid peace with the Persians, whose Shah actually had Maurice Tiberius as his father-in-law as the Shah married Maurice’s daughter. Maurice Tiberius even tried to unify the various Christians doctrines like those of monophysitians and Nestorians which mainly existed in Middle East.</p><p><br /></p><p>Phocas in contrary was a disaster because not only did his actions triggered a war with the Persians he also persecuted monophysitians and Nestorians which actually made the Arab conquest a bit easier some decades later. The persecution of the monophysitians and Nestorians under Phocas, combined with the plague that hits urban empires like Byzantium and Sassanid harder than the nomadic forces of Arabs, and the fact that Byzantines and Persians fought a long war and exhausted them made the Arabs’ conquest easy.</p><p><br /></p><p>And while the Sassanid Empire ceased to exist by the Arabs they had more trouble of shutting down Byzantium due to Constantinople’s walls. – After that the Medieval era of Byzantium began and it peaked under the Macedonian Dynasty particularly under Basil the Bulgar-Slayer’s reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Anyway. I do own 2 folles of Maurice and as well 2 half folles one greek and one latin with difference grade. Look beneath. – That folles minted in Theopolis was my first purchase.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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