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This coin is a gold solidus of Irene. During her reign, an incursion of the Arabs on the eastern frontier of Anatolia resulted in a tribute agreement whereby the empire had to pay an annual fee of 90,000 dinars to the caliph in Baghdad for a three year period, much less expensive than a punitive campaign. She also built a fleet and defeated an Arab seaborn invasion. The military governor or strategos of Sicily revolted and defected to Egypt during her reign, partly in protest of Irene's antagonism towards iconoclasm.  Irene mosaic in Hagia Sophia embed add to your site above | see full-size test >
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