10 Nummi - Athalaric Rome, person walking

Athalaric came to power at age eight under the regency of his mother Amalasuntha, making this issue the product of a court effectively run by a woman navigating impossible politics — balancing Gothic warrior aristocracy against the Roman senatorial class she openly admired. He died at eighteen, almost certainly from alcoholism encouraged by Gothic nobles who resented his Roman education. The bronze small denomination coinage of his reign continued the Ostrogothic tradition of pseudo-imperial types, minted at Rome under Gothic authority while Justinian was already planning the reconquest that would erase the kingdom entirely within two decades of this coin's striking.