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1/2 Siliqua - Baduila / In the name of Anastasius I, 491-518 Ticinum
| Issuer | Ostrogothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 549-552 |
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| Weight | 1.28 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed imperial bust, rendered in the late antique style typical of Ostrogothic imitative coinage. The effigy closely follows Byzantine prototypes of Anastasius I, with the legend encircling the bust in the field. The portrait is stylized rather than naturalistic, consistent with the degenerate engraving quality characteristic of Ostrogothic silver fractions of this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (549-552) |
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Baduila — better known in the sources as Totila — struck these small siliquae at Ticinum (modern Pavia) during the most desperate phase of the Gothic War, when Byzantine forces under Narses were systematically dismantling Ostrogothic power in Italy. Invoking Anastasius I, dead for over three decades by this point, was a deliberate political fiction: it projected legitimacy while avoiding any acknowledgment of Justinian's authority over territory Baduila still physically controlled.
Totila died at the Battle of Busta Gallorum in 552, making the window for this issue exceptionally narrow.