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10 Nummi - Athalaric Rome, person standing
| Issuer | Ostrogothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 526-534 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted and draped bust of Roma facing left, depicted in the classical Roman tradition. The bust shows Roma wearing a crested helmet, with visible drapery at the shoulder. A circular legend surrounds the bust within the coin's field. The style is characteristic of late antique hammered coinage produced at the Rome mint under Ostrogothic rule, retaining traditional Roman iconographic conventions. |
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| Mintage | ND (526-534) |
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Athalaric came to power at age eight under the regency of his mother Amalasuntha, who governed with a pro-Roman sensibility that kept the Gothic court in uneasy tension with the warrior aristocracy. These small bronze issues were struck during that regency period, maintaining the fiction of Roman administrative continuity that Theoderic had so carefully constructed — bronze coinage in the West remained technically an imperial prerogative, issued by the Ostrogoths in the emperor's name or at least within his symbolic shadow.
Athalaric died in 534 at roughly eighteen, reportedly from the effects of heavy drinking encouraged by the Gothic nobles who had wrested him from his mother's Romanizing education.