Maurice Tiberius. 582-602. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.45 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 7th officina. Struck 583/4-602. Superb EF.

Triton XXIX – Session 6
Lot: 6410. Estimated: $ 500

Byzantine, Gold

Sold For $ 1 300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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Maurice Tiberius. 582-602. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.45 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 7th officina. Struck 583/4-602. Helmeted, draped, and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger / Angel standing facing, holding long staff surmounted by staurogram and globus cruciger; Z//CONOB. DOC 5 (but cf. 149 var. (unlisted officina) for Antioch mint attribution); MIBE 6; SB 478 (but cf. 524 same). Toned and very lustrous, minor die rust. Superb EF. Well struck from wonderfully detailed dies. The 7th officina is far less common for this particular issue compared to some of the other officinae.

Ex Lanz 144 (24 November 2008), lot 763.

This series of Maurice solidi have been attributed by some to the Antioch mint on the basis of the broad bust style. However, this hypothesis is rather tenuous and the scholarship remains split on the issue. Sear acknowledged the continuing debate in his revision of SB in 1987 (see pages 126-7) but elected to retain the distinction. Most recently, however, Hahn and Metlich in MIBE (2009) continued to reject the reattribution first proposed by Bellinger in his 1966 article and subsequently incorporated in DOC I (1966). Given that MIBE is the most recent scholarship on the issue, we have elected to continue to use the Constantinople attribution; but in the interest of clarity, the alternative references for those that use the Antioch attribution have also been provided.

Closing Date and Time: 22 January 2026 at 12:16:20 ET.



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