Description
Country or authority: Byzantine Empire
Year or date range: AD 582–602 (reign); exact regnal year unresolved
Denomination: Follis (40 nummi)
Composition: Bronze
Ruler or portrait: Maurice Tiberius
Mint or mintmark: Theoupolis (Antioch); tHЄUP’; Γ, third officina
Catalogue references: Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values 533
Obverse description: Facing bust wearing a crown with trefoil ornament and pendilia, and decorated consular robes. Apparent mappa in the emperor’s right hand and eagle-tipped sceptre in his left. Fragmentary legend: […]mAV[…]P AV[…]; intervening letters and ending uncertain.
Reverse description: Large angular M, cross above and Γ below; A/N/[N/O] vertically at left. Regnal numerals at right appear XI(?) above IIII(?), but require confirmation. Exergual mintmark tHЄUP’.
