Superb Dated Carthage Solidus

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1294. Estimate $2500. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maurice Tiberius. 582-602. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.48 g, 6h). Carthage mint. Dated IY 4 (585/6). D N mAVRIC TIЬ P P AV AN Δ, helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in right hand / VICTORI–A AVCC Δ, angel standing facing, holding staff surmounted by staurogram in right hand, globus cruciger in left; CONOB. DOC (218); MIBE 25a; Berk 91 (this coin illustrated); SB 548. Superb EF. Lustrous. Rare.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection. Ex “An Important Collection of Byzantine Coins” (Sotheby’s New York, 2 November 1998), lot 153.