342, Lot: 827. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maurice Tiberius. 582-602. Æ Half Follis (19mm, 4.71 g, 12h). Cyzicus mint, 2nd officina. Dated RY 7 (588/9). [O] N mAVRIC TIЬЄR P P A, crowned and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger in right hand, shield over left shoulder / Large K; cross above, A/N/N/O GI across field, B below. Cf. DOC 139b; MIBE 88D; SB 497 (Constantinople). Good VF, dark brown patina, areas of bare metal revealed on obverse.

From the Collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Lanz 149 (24 June 2010), lot 569.

Such issues of Maurice without a mint signature have been variously attributed. DOC 139b was assigned to the Cyzicus mint in the Dumbarton Oaks catalog, but Hahn (MIBE) reattributed that coin to Constantinople. Hahn believes DOC 139a, with the rounder face as on our coin but from officina A, belongs to Cyzicus.