Choice Maurice Solidus from Carthage

CNG 100, Lot: 283. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maurice Tiberius. 582-602. AV Solidus (17mm, 4.43 g, 6h). Carthage mint. Dated IY 14 (595/6). Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger; AN IΔ at end of legend / Angel standing facing, holding long staff surmounted by staurogram and globus cruciger; IΔ//CONOB. DOC 228.1; MIBE 25b; SB 549. Superb EF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack’s, 5 May 1984), lot 1638.