Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1343. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MAURICE TIBERIUS. 582-602 AD. AV Semissis (2.23 gm, 8h). Thessalonica mint. DN TIbE RA PP AVG, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORI A AVCC, Victory advancing right, holding wreath and globus cruciger; CONOB. DOC I -; MIB II -; SB -. Good VF, faint graffiti in obverse field. Extremely rare. ($500)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 2686.

See MIB III pl. 57, N23 for a stylistically similar tremissis attributed to Thessalonica. No semisses are recorded for Thessalonica under Maurice.