Description
Country or authority: Byzantine Empire
Year or date range: AD 598–599.
Denomination: 20 Nummi
Composition: Bronze
Ruler or portrait: Maurice Tiberius
Mint or mintmark: Γ below the K = third officina.
Catalogue references: Sear Byzantine 497
Obverse description: Facing bust of Maurice, wearing a helmet/crown and armour, holding a globe topped by a cross, with a shield at his left shoulder. A partly preserved form of D N MAVRIC TIBER P P AV.
Reverse description: Large K, representing 20 nummi; ANNO vertically to the left. The worn numerals on the right appear to read X / U / II, meaning regnal year 17, or AD 598–599.
