Depiction on a coin

Staurakios

† 812

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Cut-out detail; background removed. Gold coin of Nikephoros I in the Numismatic Museum, Athens, photographed by Francesco Bini. Crown, face and cross are visible. We do not know where this coin was found. — Francesco Bini · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Nikephoros dies in July 811. His son Staurakios is gravely wounded.

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