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Tremissis - Arichis II
| Issuer | Principality of Benevento |
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| Year | 765-774 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A tall cross potent on steps occupies the centre of the field, with the letter A (alpha) prominently placed to the lower left of the cross shaft. The composition closely follows late Byzantine tremissis prototypes, rendered in the debased Lombard style. A circular Latin legend surrounds the design, with the mint reference CONOB appearing in the lower exergual area, indicating a nominal reference to the Constantinople mint standard. A pellet border frames the entire reverse. |
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Arichis II governed Benevento as a Lombard duke under Frankish overlordship until 774, when Charlemagne's destruction of the Lombard kingdom prompted him to elevate his own title to "princeps" — effectively declaring Benevento an autonomous principality rather than submit. These tremisses predate that declaration, struck while he still nominally acknowledged Lombard royal authority, which makes the series a precise political timestamp for the years immediately before the Frankish conquest reshuffled the entire Italian south.