Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2017. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maurice Tiberius. 582-602. AV Solidus (4.45 g, 6h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger / Angel standing facing, holding staff terminating in Christogram and globus cruciger; star in right field; E//CONOB. DOC I 257 corr. (C NOB; Constantine(?) in Numidia mint); MIB II 28 (Sicily); SB 573. Good VF, light porosity on reverse.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.

Hahn dismisses the attribution of coins to this mint. He assigns the solidi to Sicily and the bronze to either Carthage or to the uncertain “military” mint.