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Solidus - Mauricius Tiberius VICTORIA AVGG, Ravenna
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 582-602 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Ravenna |
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Mauricius Tiberius inherited an empire financially exhausted by his predecessor Tiberius II, who had depleted the treasury through lavish donatives and Persian war expenditures. The Ravenna mint, operating under the Exarchate, served the western administrative apparatus and produced solidii distinguishable from Constantinople issues — the Ravenna fabric tends toward a slightly more irregular flan, a product of provincial workshop practice rather than the capital's more controlled production.
Mauricius was murdered in November 602 when the Danubian army mutinied under the centurion Phocas, along with five of his sons.