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Siliqua in the name of Honorius Carthage
| Issuer | Vandal Kingdom |
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| Year | 440-490 |
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| Weight | 2.01 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Carthage, Tunisia |
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The Vandals captured Carthage in 439 AD and almost immediately began striking coinage — a deliberate act of administrative continuity rather than innovation. By issuing silver in the name of Honorius, a Western emperor who had died in 423, the Vandal kingdom under Geiseric projected legitimacy through a fiction: the currency of a ruler long dead, issued by a kingdom Rome refused to formally recognize until the treaty of 442.
The choice of Honorius specifically, rather than the reigning emperor, remains a studied ambiguity — neither overt challenge to Constantinople nor submission to it.