Catalog
1 Tremissis - Rothari
| Issuer | Lombardy and Tuscany (Lombard Kingdom) |
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| Year | 636-652 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A stylized Winged Victory standing, rendered in the degenerate late antique tradition characteristic of early Lombard gold coinage. The figure is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with a Latin legend surrounding the design in the outer field. The execution is notably schematic, reflecting the Lombard workshop's distance from classical Byzantine models. The legend, DNATNAIVIVTORIII / IONOI, represents a corrupt rendering of the Byzantine Victory type formula. |
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Rothari ruled the Lombard Kingdom from 636 to 652 and is best remembered for codifying Lombard customary law into the Edictum Rothari in 643 — the first written Germanic legal code produced in Italy. His coinage, however, remained deeply imitative of Byzantine types, a deliberate political signal that Lombard rulers still sought legitimacy through visual association with Constantinople even as they fought Byzantine forces in the peninsula. The tremissis denomination itself was borrowed wholesale from late Roman fiscal practice.