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20 Nummi - Mauricius Tiberius Carthage
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 584 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | D N TIB MAVRICI P |
| Reverse description | Central large K denomination mark flanked by two stars to either side, serving as the principal design element denoting the value of 20 Nummi. Above the K appears a cross with the letters N and M to its left and right respectively, referencing the numismatic value notation. The exergue bears the indiction date IND III, corresponding to the third indiction year and helping to date this issue to 584 AD. The overall arrangement is typical of Carthaginian mint practice under Mauricius Tiberius, with the denomination letter prominently centered in the field. |
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Carthage resumed striking bronze coinage under Byzantine administration only after Justinian's reconquest of North Africa from the Vandals in 533 — a half-century gap in local mint production that makes even routine issues from the Carthaginian mint historically loaded. By the reign of Mauricius Tiberius, the mint was operating under the exarchate system, established around 585, which granted the Exarch of Africa unusual military and civil authority precisely because the province sat so far from Constantinople and so close to the Berber frontier.
Carthaginian nummi from this period are notoriously irregular in fabric, a product of provincial die-cutting well removed from imperial oversight.