Coin Item Number: 3095/670 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Byzantine coin of Maurice Tiberius, 582-602. Obverse: bust of Maurice Tiberius, facing front, in consular robes and crown with trefoil ornament; to left, he holds a mappa; to right, he holds an eagle-tipped sceptre; inscriptions are badly blundered; to left, it says ‘OΠNISI’; to right, ‘SITNTAAPPY’. Reverse: large ‘M’; to left, ‘ANNO’ in a vertical position; to right, ‘III’; above, cross; in exergue, ‘TH[E]ϤP’, with a diagonal line after the ‘P’.

History Of Use

"Follis" (denomination); DO# 154; Sear# 532.