Suinthila — the Visigothic king whose tremissis this coin commemorates — is a figure known primarily from Isidore of Seville, who praised him as the first ruler to hold dominion over the entirety of the Iberian Peninsula after expelling the last Byzantine garrisons from the southeast around 624 AD. That distinction lasted barely a decade; he was deposed by a noble faction in 631 and formally condemned by the Fourth Council of Toledo in 633, stripped of his honors posthumously.
The original tremissis on which this issue is based was struck in electrum at Visigothic mints operating under Roman monetary conventions inherited through the Suevic and late Western imperial traditions. Toledo was almost certainly the principal mint by Suinthila's reign.
Suinthila — the Visigothic king whose tremissis this coin commemorates — is a figure known primarily from Isidore of Seville, who praised him as the first ruler to hold dominion over the entirety of the Iberian Peninsula after expelling the last Byzantine garrisons from the southeast around 624 AD. That distinction lasted barely a decade; he was deposed by a noble faction in 631 and formally condemned by the Fourth Council of Toledo in 633, stripped of his honors posthumously.
The original tremissis on which this issue is based was struck in electrum at Visigothic mints operating under Roman monetary conventions inherited through the Suevic and late Western imperial traditions. Toledo was almost certainly the principal mint by Suinthila's reign.