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Tremissis - Egica and Wittiza Cesaraugusta
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 694-702 |
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| Currency | Tremissis |
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| Obverse description | Two confronting royal busts facing one another across a central scepter, rendered in the schematic late Visigothic style characteristic of the joint reign coinage. The busts are shown in profile or three-quarter view, with stylized drapery indicated by incised lines, and the scepter — symbol of royal authority — occupies the central axis between them. A circular Latin legend surrounds the design within a beaded border, reading the names and titles of both co-rulers. The execution is typical of late seventh-century Visigothic hammered gold, with bold, somewhat abstracted relief. |
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| Mintage | ND (694-702) |
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Egica elevated his son Wittiza to co-ruler in 694, an unusually early co-regency that appears designed to secure the succession against aristocratic challenge — a persistent threat throughout the late Visigothic period. Joint-reign coinage from Cesaraugusta (Zaragoza) documents this arrangement directly, the mint continuing to operate as one of the kingdom's more productive northern issues. Within a decade of this coin's striking, the entire Visigothic state had collapsed under the Umayyad invasion of 711, making the late co-regency series a hard terminus in Iberian Germanic coinage.