588-589 AD., Maurice Tiberius, Antiochia mint, Follis, Sear BC 532.
Maurice Tiberius, Antiochia mint, 588-589 AD.,
Æ Follis (28-29 mm / 10,76 g), bronze, axes about coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 190°),
Obv.: ΠITITNC~ - ~ΛINTI·I P P v- , his bust facing, wearing crown without (sic) trefoil ornament, and consular robes, holding mappa in right hand and eagle tipped scepter in left.
Rev.: large m between A / N / N / o and II / u (regnal year 7 (2+5), 588-589 AD.), cross above, THЄUP´ in exergue.
Sear BC 532 .
Following the devastating earthquake of 526 a cross appeared in the sky over Antioch. The city was thus renamed Theopolis - the City of God - in 528.