A Little Help With Byzantine Coin Please

I can't make out the legend very well but I believe your coin is Maurice Tiberius SB 496, regnal year II, officinae A.

Actually even with the hard to read legend this coin is slightly above average.

Here are some prices I found around the time you're coin was struck. We seldom realize that our collections were ment to be spent.

Laborers at Constantinople and in Levantine cities during the sixth and early seventh century received daily wages of 3 to 5 folles, the price of 1 modius of wheat. Since most work was seasonal, many laborers worked for wages only 4 months per year, earning 360 to 600 folles. Sometimes laborers could demand higher wages. In 506, when Anastasius rushed construction on the fortress of Daras, he offered daily wages of 35 folles per man and 70 folles (= 1 gold tremissis) for each man with a draft animal (Zach. Myt., Chron. VII. 6).

Here are the food prices.

In the early sixth century, a follis (weighing 18 to 22 grs.) purchased the daily subsistence of an adult male (bread, oil, and vegetables); ascetics needed a half-follis. In 600 inflation raised the price to 2 folles (weighing 11.0 grs.); after 615 it rose to 5 folles (weighing 3.5 to 5 grs.). In Nisibis of the mid-sixth century, the Sassanid silver dirhem (4 grs. and exchanged at 12 to 14 folles at the rate of 539) bought daily subsistence for two adult males (bread, oil, and fish).