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20 Nummi
| Issuer | Rome, City of |
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| Year | 493-553 |
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| Value | 20 Nummi |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Rome remained under Ostrogothic administration from Theoderic's takeover in 493 until Justinian's forces under Belisarius and later Narses recaptured the city in 552–553, and coinage struck in the city during this period occupies an awkward historiographical position — technically Gothic in authority, yet administratively Roman in every practical sense. The Ostrogoths deliberately maintained Roman civic institutions, the Senate, and existing mint operations as instruments of legitimacy.
The conflicting reference attributions across MEC, BMC, and Metlich reflect genuine scholarly disagreement about whether specific issues within this span originate under Gothic or transitional Byzantine oversight.