CNG 99, Lot: 792. Estimate $300. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maurice Tiberius. 582-602. Æ (20mm, 4.47 g, 6h). Rome or uncertain military mint. Struck 583-602. Crowned, draped, and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger / Large XX; cross above; ROM. DOC 283 (Rome); MIBE 155 (Rome / Military mint); SB 587 (Rome). VF, brown surfaces, minor roughness. Good for issue.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex Gemini VII (9 January 2011), lot 939; Christopher Connell Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 66, 19 May 2004), lot 1720.

The portrait on Maurice’s Rome mint half folles is stylistically identical to pieces bearing the mintmarks CON, KYZ, or even KωN. As these circulated in the west, it is unclear if the ROM mintmark is completely fanciful, or, as Hahn (p. 58) suggests: “[a]t least a division of the military mint seems to have finally settled down in Rome.”