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1 Tremissis In the name of Maurice Tiberius, Victory with full face, without N in field
| Issuer | Lombardy |
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| Year | 582-690 |
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| Currency | Tremissis (568-690) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | VICTORIA AVIVITORVN CONOR (Translation: Victoria Augustus / Constantinople Victory of the August / Constantinople) |
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The Lombards occupied northern Italy from 568 onward but lacked both the infrastructure and the ideological clarity to mint entirely independent coinage for generations. These tremisses — struck in the name of a Byzantine emperor the Lombards were actively fighting — reflect the awkward monetary pragmatism of a conquest-state dependent on Byzantine weight standards and trade networks for commercial credibility. The absence of the N in the field distinguishes this subtype from related issues and likely reflects workshop variation rather than deliberate iconographic editing.