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| Issuer | Uncertain Germanic tribes |
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| Year | 475-690 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis = ⅓ Solidus |
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| Reverse lettering | OVACTOCV - CTOAVO ONO |
| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
The "long head" tremisses occupy a genuinely awkward corner of early medieval numismatics — they circulated across the fragmenting Western territories during a period when no single Germanic authority fully controlled a mint, and attributing them to a specific tribe or region remains contested. The MEC I comparandum at 374 provides a loose anchor, but the series likely represents output from multiple workshops imitating late Roman prototypes with increasing stylistic drift.
The absence of an Arslan number here is telling — these pieces fall into the gaps between established series precisely because no issuing authority is confirmed.