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Constantinople mint. 4.47g. Obverse: draped and cuirassed facing bust, wearing crown with pendilia and holding globus cruciger, legend around reading D N MAVRC TIЬ… P P AVG (or similar Maurice Tiberius imperial titulature). Reverse: Angel standing facing, wings displayed, holding long staff surmounted by staurogram/christogram in right hand and globus cruciger in left; CONOB in exergue, mint mark of Constantinople. Struck in the imperial capital during the reign of Maurice Tiberius, a soldier-emperor who rose through the military ranks to the purple, stabilized Rome’s eastern frontier against Persia, and campaigned hard against the Avars & Slavs in the Balkans before a mutiny of his own army brought his reign to a brutal end in 602 A.D. The facing angel reverse, a hallmark of Byzantine gold coinage inherited from Justinian’s reforms, remained the standard solidus type for generations. A well-struck, high-grade example with strong centering and full legends a handsome representativ