Nummus - Imitation of Gunthamund

Gunthamund ruled Carthage from 484 to 496, yet imitations of his nummi continued circulating for decades after his death — a sign of how thoroughly Vandal bronze had fractured from any centralised issuing authority by the mid-sixth century. These pieces were likely struck by local or itinerant moneyers filling a gap in small-denomination bronze that the kingdom's increasingly strained administration could not adequately supply. The fall of Carthage to Belisarius in 533 did not immediately suppress them; Byzantine reconquest disrupted distribution networks before it standardised coinage.