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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4304735, member: 98035&quot;]Had to go grab the image for this one</p><p><br /></p><p>Sassanian Empire</p><p>Yazdegerd III</p><p>Sakastan mint, RY20 (651)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095268[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Taking the Sassanian throne as a boy after a deeply damaging civil war and on the eve of the Arab invasion, Yazdegerd III never really had much of a chance. He blew off his last opportunity to save his empire when he dismissed the Arab invaders as nothing more than bandits from the desert. His defeats on the battlefield became progressively more damaging until his empire crumbled out from beneath him. When this coin was minted in 651, he was no longer fighting but fleeing for his life - the bulk of his empire had already fallen, except for a few cities in the East. Probably around the time this coin was minted, Sakastan turned him away, preferring to negotiate with the Arab invaders rather than make a last stand with their Shah. Yazdegerd III then fled to Merv, where he was killed by a local miller for his purse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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