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Tremissis - Egica and Wittiza Valentia
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 694-702 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Valencia de Alcantara, Spain |
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Egica elevated his son Wittiza to co-rulership in 694, an unusual joint reign intended to secure dynastic succession — a chronic vulnerability in Visigothic politics, where the kingship was elective in principle and violently contested in practice. Coins struck in both names were produced at a handful of mints, Valentia among them, during the roughly eight years before Egica's death and the brief sole reign that followed.
The Visigothic tremissis series is notoriously difficult to attribute by mint without reference to specific die studies; Pliego's corpus remains the standard for resolving those attributions.