Cut Quarter Tremissis

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Scrittura del dritto	Latin
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Descrizione del rovescio	Reverse of this quarter-cut fragment retains a partial standing figure, tentatively identified as a Victory or royal personage, rendered in the debased late antique style typical of Visigothic tremisses of the reign of Liuvigild (568–586). Only a portion of the design survives due to the deliberate quartering of the original coin for use as fractional currency. Traces of a partial Latin circumferential legend are visible along the curved die edge, though the lettering is largely lost to the cut. The surface shows the characteristic flat, slightly worn relief of hammered Visigothic gold coinage.
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Quartering a tremissis — itself already a third of a solidus — was an act of desperation or extreme precision in small-value exchange, reducing a coin already at the edge of practical mintable size into a fragment worth roughly one-twelfth of a solidus. This piece dates to the reign of Liuvigild, the Visigothic king who systematically reformed Iberian coinage and was the first Visigothic ruler to strike coins in his own name rather than in the name of the Byzantine emperor.

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