Watch List notes:

Maurice Tiberius (?), 582-602. Half Follis (Bronze, 23 mm, 6.25 g, 7 h), Theoupolis (Antiochia). D m TIЧ COTANS P AV Crowned facing bust of Maurice Tiberius, wearing crown surmounted with cross and consular robes, holding mappa and eagle-tipped scepter. Rev. ς Large XX between A/N/N/O and [regnal year]; above, cross; below, R. DOC 174-183. MIB 97. SB 534. Repatinated and the reverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, very fine.


The mint of Theoupolis often confused the legends of Tiberius II Constantine and his successor Maurice Tiberius and it is only through the regnal years that the two can be differentiated. Unfortunately, the regnal year is mostly off flan here and our attribution to Maurice Tiberius hence tentative.