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1 Tremissis Short head
| Issuer | Uncertain Germanic tribes |
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| Year | 475-690 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bust of a late Roman emperor facing right, depicted in a debased barbaric style derived from late Roman imperial prototypes. The effigy displays a diademed and draped bust with a broad, rounded facial rendering characteristic of Germanic imitative coinage. A pseudo-legend in degenerate Latin characters encircles the bust, rendered as garbled imitation of Roman imperial titulature. The overall style reflects the hand of a Germanic die-cutter working from Roman tremissis models of the 5th–7th centuries. |
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| Obverse lettering | WVSARCIAO - IIVS PC AVN |
| Reverse description | A standing figure, derived from the Victory or angel type common on late Roman and Byzantine tremisses, rendered in a simplified barbaric style. The figure appears frontally or in slight three-quarter pose, with schematic wings and garments reduced to abstract linear forms. A globus cruciger or cross-topped staff may be held in one hand. The surrounding pseudo-legend consists of debased Latin letterforms arranged in imitation of an imperial reverse inscription. A globule or cross appears in the exergue, consistent with Germanic imitative tremissis types of this period. |
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