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| Reference | Sear 497 | Bronze Half Follis 21mm (4.58 grams) Struck in Constantinople mint 582-602 A.D.
Miriam/Maria (b. ca 582), married to Khosrau II and had issue
His brother Petrus Augustus (ca 550 - 602) became the Curopalates and was killed at the same time of his brother
He married Anastasia Aerobinda (b. ca 570), daughter of Areobindus (b. ca 550) and wife, and had female issue
His sister Theoktista (ca 540 - aft
582) married a husband who died before 582 and had a daughter Gordia (ca 560 - aft
597), who married Marinos (ca 555 - aft
597), son of Nerses (ca 530 - aft
595) and wife Hesychia (b. ca 535), by whom she had a daughter Theoktista (ca 575/ca 580 - aft
597), married to Christodoros (b. ca 570) and had issue
His sister Gordia (ca 550 - aft
602) married Philippikos (ca 550 - Chrysopolis , 614), General , Comes Excubitorum and mag
in 582, by whom she had a daughter, who married Artabastos Mamikonian (b. ca 565), and had issue
The State Treasury contained the enormous sum of 320,000 lb (150,000 kg) of gold when Anastasius died in 518
Constantinople itself dropped substantially in size, from 500,000 inhabitants to just 40,000–70,000, and, like other urban centres, it was partly ruralised
The emergency lent weight to the military aristocracy in Anatolia who, in 1068, secured the election of one of their own, Romanos IV Diogenes , as emperor
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