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1/4 Siliqua - Theoderic / In the name of Justin I, 518-526 Ravenna
| Issuer | Ostrogothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 518-526 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Ravenna |
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Theoderic the Great ruled Italy as an Ostrogothic king while technically governing in the name of the Eastern emperor — a careful legal fiction that kept relations with Constantinople functional, if perpetually uneasy. When Justin I succeeded Anastasius in 518, Theoderic continued issuing coinage under the new emperor's name without interruption, a bureaucratic continuity that reflects just how thoroughly the Ostrogothic administration had absorbed Roman fiscal habits. The arrangement collapsed ideologically near the end of Theoderic's life, when his execution of Boethius in 524 and Pope John I in 526 poisoned relations with both Rome and the East.
The quarter siliqua was the smallest silver denomination in this system, and surviving examples attributable to the Ravenna mint are notably few relative to the broader Ostrogothic silver output.