Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1338. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MAURICE TIBERIUS. 582-602 AD. AV Light-Weight Solidus of 22 Siliquae (4.09 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. oN TIbER MAVRIC PP AV, diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger and shield / VICTORIA AVGG, angel standing facing, holding staff surmounted by christogram and plain globus; QS/CONOB. Cf. DOC I 3/151 (Antioch); cf. MIB II 4/13a; cf. SB 476/529 (obv./rev.; Antioch). EF, slightly wavy flan. Unpublished hybrid. ($500)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Ponterio 80 (29-30 March 1996), lot 53.

This hybrid provides clear evidence that the light weight solidi were struck at Constantinople, with the obverse type limited to the court mint, and the QS marked reverse, formerly attributed to Antioch (Theopolis).