Rare Issues from Carthage

CNG 88, Lot: 1553. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maurice Tiberius. 582-602. Æ Follis (26mm, 20.71 g, 12h). Carthage mint. Struck circa 582-585. Crowned and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger and shield / Round shield containing star; above, cross between NM; large XX flanking; KRT below. DOC 243; MIBE 116; SB 556. VF, brown surfaces, a few minor areas of roughness. Very rare.

From the J.-P. Righetti Collection, 530. Purchased privately from the Nadia Kapamadji Collection.