Tremissis - Chintila Ispali

Chintila's reign lasted barely three years, ending with his death in late 639. He is notable less for military or administrative achievement than for the church councils he convened — the Fourth and Fifth Councils of Toledo, both held during his reign, at which the assembled bishops formally endorsed the exclusive right of Visigoths to hold royal office and anathematized any who seized the throne by force. The political anxiety embedded in those decrees reflects just how unstable Visigothic succession had become by the mid-seventh century.

This tremissis was struck at Ispali — modern Seville — one of the more productive Visigothic mints of the period.