Simon, thanks for your reply. I raised the question because I have stumbled across a couple of oddities from the sixth century, a
solidus of Justinian and a
solidus of
Maurice. Both appear to have an extra
bar on the
cross. For
Maurice it is on the
globus cruciger on the
obverse. For Justinian it is on the staff on the
reverse. Both coins were sold without any note of anything unusual. It made me wonder whether this was intentional or an inadvertent die cutters error. For the
Maurice coin, perhaps there was damage to the die, and the die was recut to add the additional
bar? Note the other
flan defects in the
field. I did not find any seventh century coins with a double barred
cross.
