Mauricius Tiberius came to power in 582 following the death of Tiberius II Constantine, inheriting an empire simultaneously pressured by the Avars and Slavs on the Danube and a grinding war with Sassanid Persia in the east. The Carthage mint served the exarchate of Africa, an administrative reorganization that concentrated civil and military authority under a single exarch — a structural response to the difficulty of governing distant provinces from Constantinople.
The 582–584 window is narrow, and Carthaginian output from these early regnal years is modest. BCV 563 is among the less frequently encountered of the Maurician Carthage small bronzes.
Mauricius Tiberius came to power in 582 following the death of Tiberius II Constantine, inheriting an empire simultaneously pressured by the Avars and Slavs on the Danube and a grinding war with Sassanid Persia in the east. The Carthage mint served the exarchate of Africa, an administrative reorganization that concentrated civil and military authority under a single exarch — a structural response to the difficulty of governing distant provinces from Constantinople.
The 582–584 window is narrow, and Carthaginian output from these early regnal years is modest. BCV 563 is among the less frequently encountered of the Maurician Carthage small bronzes.