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<p>[QUOTE="Orfew, post: 2828683, member: 74968"]From Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>"Maurice</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language" rel="nofollow">Latin</a>: <i>Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus</i>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" rel="nofollow">Greek</a>: Φλάβιος Μαυρίκιος Τιβέριος Αὔγουστος) (539 – 27 November 602) was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Emperor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Emperor" rel="nofollow">Eastern Roman Emperor</a> from 582 to 602.</p><p><br /></p><p>A prominent general in his youth, Maurice fought with success against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassanid_Persia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassanid_Persia" rel="nofollow">Sassanid Persians</a>. Once he became Emperor, he brought the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Persian_War_of_572%E2%80%93591" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Persian_War_of_572%E2%80%93591" rel="nofollow">war with Sasanian Persia</a> to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blarathon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blarathon" rel="nofollow">victorious conclusion</a>: the Empire's eastern border in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus" rel="nofollow">Caucasus</a> was vastly expanded and for the first time in nearly two centuries the Romans were no longer obliged to pay the Persians thousands of pounds of gold annually for peace.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maurice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%27s_Balkan_campaigns" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%27s_Balkan_campaigns" rel="nofollow">campaigned extensively</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans" rel="nofollow">Balkans</a> against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Avars" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Avars" rel="nofollow">Avars</a> – pushing them back across the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube" rel="nofollow">Danube</a> by 599. He also conducted campaigns across the Danube, the first Roman Emperor to do so in over two centuries. In the West, he established two large semi-autonomous provinces called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exarchate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exarchate" rel="nofollow">exarchates</a>, ruled by <i>exarchs</i>, or viceroys, of the emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Italy, Maurice established the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exarchate_of_Ravenna" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exarchate_of_Ravenna" rel="nofollow">Exarchate of Ravenna</a> in 584, the first real effort by the Empire to halt the advance of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombards" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombards" rel="nofollow">Lombards</a>. With the creation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exarchate_of_Africa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exarchate_of_Africa" rel="nofollow">Exarchate of Africa</a> in 590, he further solidified the power of Constantinople in the western <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean" rel="nofollow">Mediterranean</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>His reign was troubled by financial difficulties and almost constant warfare. In 602, a dissatisfied general named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocas" rel="nofollow">Phocas</a> usurped the throne, having Maurice and his six sons executed. This event would prove cataclysmic for the Empire, sparking a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Sasanian_War_of_602%E2%80%93628" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Sasanian_War_of_602%E2%80%93628" rel="nofollow">twenty-six year war</a> with Sassanid Persia which would leave both empires devastated prior to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests" rel="nofollow">Muslim conquests</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>His reign is a relatively accurately documented era of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Antiquity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Antiquity" rel="nofollow">Late Antiquity</a>, in particular by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian" rel="nofollow">historian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophylact_Simocatta" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophylact_Simocatta" rel="nofollow">Theophylact Simocatta</a>. The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategikon_of_Maurice" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategikon_of_Maurice" rel="nofollow">Strategikon</a></i>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_military_manuals" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_military_manuals" rel="nofollow">manual of war</a> which influenced European and Middle Eastern military traditions for well over a millennium, is traditionally attributed to Maurice."</p><p><br /></p><p>I just received confirmation that I won this solidus of Maurice in Frank Robinson's latest auction. It will make a great addition to my historical figures collection, and is my fourth gold Byzantine coin. I really like these and might go after a few more really soon. I really like the obverse of this coin. the portrait is well detailed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your coins of Maurice, Byzantine gold coins, or any Byzantine coins at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]666168[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orfew, post: 2828683, member: 74968"]From Wikipedia: [B]"Maurice[/B] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language']Latin[/URL]: [I]Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus[/I]; [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language']Greek[/URL]: Φλάβιος Μαυρίκιος Τιβέριος Αὔγουστος) (539 – 27 November 602) was [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Emperor']Eastern Roman Emperor[/URL] from 582 to 602. A prominent general in his youth, Maurice fought with success against the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassanid_Persia']Sassanid Persians[/URL]. Once he became Emperor, he brought the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Persian_War_of_572%E2%80%93591']war with Sasanian Persia[/URL] to a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blarathon']victorious conclusion[/URL]: the Empire's eastern border in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus']Caucasus[/URL] was vastly expanded and for the first time in nearly two centuries the Romans were no longer obliged to pay the Persians thousands of pounds of gold annually for peace. Maurice [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%27s_Balkan_campaigns']campaigned extensively[/URL] in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans']Balkans[/URL] against the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Avars']Avars[/URL] – pushing them back across the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube']Danube[/URL] by 599. He also conducted campaigns across the Danube, the first Roman Emperor to do so in over two centuries. In the West, he established two large semi-autonomous provinces called [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exarchate']exarchates[/URL], ruled by [I]exarchs[/I], or viceroys, of the emperor. In Italy, Maurice established the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exarchate_of_Ravenna']Exarchate of Ravenna[/URL] in 584, the first real effort by the Empire to halt the advance of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombards']Lombards[/URL]. With the creation of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exarchate_of_Africa']Exarchate of Africa[/URL] in 590, he further solidified the power of Constantinople in the western [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean']Mediterranean[/URL]. His reign was troubled by financial difficulties and almost constant warfare. In 602, a dissatisfied general named [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocas']Phocas[/URL] usurped the throne, having Maurice and his six sons executed. This event would prove cataclysmic for the Empire, sparking a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Sasanian_War_of_602%E2%80%93628']twenty-six year war[/URL] with Sassanid Persia which would leave both empires devastated prior to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests']Muslim conquests[/URL]. His reign is a relatively accurately documented era of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Antiquity']Late Antiquity[/URL], in particular by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian']historian[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophylact_Simocatta']Theophylact Simocatta[/URL]. The [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategikon_of_Maurice']Strategikon[/URL][/I], a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_military_manuals']manual of war[/URL] which influenced European and Middle Eastern military traditions for well over a millennium, is traditionally attributed to Maurice." I just received confirmation that I won this solidus of Maurice in Frank Robinson's latest auction. It will make a great addition to my historical figures collection, and is my fourth gold Byzantine coin. I really like these and might go after a few more really soon. I really like the obverse of this coin. the portrait is well detailed. Please post your coins of Maurice, Byzantine gold coins, or any Byzantine coins at all. [ATTACH=full]666168[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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