Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1336. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TIBERIUS II CONSTANTINE. 578-582 AD. AV Light-Weight Solidus of 22 Siliquae (4.09 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. DM TIb CONSTANT PP AVG, diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger and shield / VICTORIA AVGG, cross potent on four steps; QS/OB+*. DOC I 38 (Antioch); MIB II 5; SB 446 (Antioch). EF, a few tiny nicks in the fields. ($500)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVI (11 June 1993), lot 631.

There is no evidence for the earlier speculative attribution of the light-weight solidi of Tiberius and Maurice to Antioch or another branch mint. They have all the characteristics of regular Constantinople issues, although the reason for their striking remains a mystery.