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Byzantine Empire, Maurice Tiberius, 13 August 582 - 22 November 602 A.D.
Cassander of Macedonia founded Thessalonica in 315 B.C. He named it after his wife Thessalonike, a half-sister of Alexander the Great. Thessalonica became the capital of Roman Macedonia in 168 B.C. and was later the administrative center for all of Greece. Its location at the nexus of both the East-West and North-South trade routes was ideal. In 1423, Andronicus ceded the city to Venice to protect it from the besieging Ottomans. The Venetians held Thessaloniki until it was taken by the Sultan Murad II on 29 March 1430. MA95737. Bronze half follis, DOC I 72, Hahn MIB II 112B, SBCV 508, Sommer 7.37, Morrisson BnF - (p. 189), Wroth BMC -, Tolstoi -, Ratto -, VF, ragged flan, bumps, scattered porosity, Thessalonica (Salonika, Greece) mint, weight 5.853g, maximum diameter 21.4mm, die axis 180o, 582 - 583 A.D.; obverse D N TIBE mAVRIC P P AVC, crowned and cuirassed bust facing, crown with cross and pendilia, globus cruciger in right hand, shield on left shoulder; reverse large K (20 nummi) between A/N/N/O and I (regnal year 1), cross above, TES (Thessalonica) below; this is the first specimen of this type handled by Forum; scarce; SOLD
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