TYPE Byzantine Empire, Tiberius II Constantine (578-582 AD), bronze half follis, Thessalonika mint, struck 580/1 DESCRIPTION . Obv: Enthroned facing imperial couple, Latin legend "[...] TANT PP" Rev: Denomination (K = 20 nummi), mintmark TES below, cross above, regnal year 7 (ANNO - V/II) REFERENCE: SB 439 GRADING: F / AVF, pitted mixed brown patina, irregular flan, scarce ORDER INFO: B2471, $35 Not particuarly pretty, nor stylistically different from the common Justin and Sophia half folles of the previous reign from the same mint, but the key partial legend indicates the present attribution - a scarcer type, and historically important as the only appearance (as crude as it might be) of the empress Anastasia on coinage.