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Nummus - Hilderic Carthage mint
| Issuer | Vandal Kingdom |
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| Year | 523-530 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hilderic was the only Vandal king to maintain genuinely cordial relations with Constantinople, a policy that reflected his partial Roman blood — his mother was Eudocia, daughter of the Western Emperor Valentinian III. That orientation toward the east ultimately cost him the throne; in 530 he was deposed by his cousin Gelimer, whose anti-Roman stance better suited the Vandal military aristocracy. The coup gave Justinian the pretext he needed, and within three years Belisarius had ended the kingdom entirely.
These tiny Carthaginian bronzes circulated in the closing window of independent Vandal rule, when the mint was already producing coins under what amounted to a pro-Byzantine administration.