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Tremissis - Egica and Wittiza Toleto
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 694-702 |
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| Weight | 1.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Two facing busts of the co-rulers Egica and Wittiza depicted in the characteristic late Visigothic schematic style, separated by a tall cross potent or staff between them. Both effigies are rendered in a highly stylised, nearly abstract manner typical of late seventh-century Visigothic coinage, with simplified facial features and broad shoulders. A pellet or globus is visible between or above the busts. The surrounding field is occupied by the Latin legend reading + I · D · N · N EGICA RX, with letters arranged around the circumference of the flan. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded or toothed border consistent with the Toledo mint's output during this period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Egica elevated his son Wittiza to co-ruler around 694, a dynastic arrangement intended to secure succession — a perennial vulnerability in Visigothic politics, where kingship was elective in theory and frequently contested in blood. Joint-reign coinage from Toledo is the most securely attributable of the series, the mint city being the Visigothic capital and its output better documented than provincial strikes. This issue falls within the final decade of the kingdom itself; within roughly a decade of the last coins bearing these two names, the Umayyad invasion of 711 had effectively erased Visigothic royal authority entirely.