Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1624. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MAURICE TIBERIUS. 582-602 AD. Æ Decanummium (2.28 g, 6h). Ravenna mint. Struck 582-584 AD. [DN T]IbER MAVRIC P AV, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Large X; cross above, S to right, R A to left and below. DOC -; E-C 156; MIB II 147B; SB 599A. VF for type, the details obscured by a thick red-brown patina. Rare. ($500)

Grierson interprets the S appearing on several of the Ravenna mint bronzes of Maurice as an officina mark (S=Sola).