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Triton XVI, Lot: 1246. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maurice Tiberius. 582-602. AR Light Siliqua (19mm, 1.83 g, 7h). Ceremonial coinage. Constantinople mint. Struck 583/4-602. [DN mAV]R RI OO AVC, helmeted, draped, and cuirassed bust right within double border; four stars outside / Cross potent on globe, all within double border; four stars outside. DOC 19; MIBE 54a; SB 491. VF, toned, ding on bust, areas of flat strike.


The use of multiple borders on this scarce issue may have been adopted from the designs on Sasanian drachms during the perpetual warfare between the two states. The obverse iconography is borrowed from earlier Justinianic silver while, on the reverse, the cross of Christianity stands dominant over the spheres of heaven, sea, and earth (MIBE p. 51).