Description
Country or authority: Byzantine Empire
Year or date range: AD 585–586, regnal year 4
Denomination: Half follis (20 nummi)
Composition: Bronze
Ruler or portrait: Maurice Tiberius (AD 582–602), facing bust
Mint or mintmark: Antioch (Theoupolis); lower mint signature indistinct
Catalogue references: Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values 534
Obverse description: Facing imperial bust wearing consular robes and a crown apparently topped by a trefoil, with hanging pendilia. Holds a mappa in the right hand, at the viewer’s left, and an eagle-tipped sceptre in the left. Marginal legend fragmentary and apparently blundered: […]; isolated T-, I- and C-like characters are distinguishable, but no continuous ruler name or title is securely readable. Dotted border.
Reverse description: Large X•X with a cross above. Vertical inscription A/[…] at left, consistent with ANNO but partly obscured. II/II at right, indicating regnal year 4. An indistinct rounded, tailed mark below may represent the R-shaped mint signature associated with this type. Dotted border.
