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Tremissis - Egica Emerita
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 687-702 |
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| Weight | 1.42 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | EMERITA PIVS |
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Egica ruled the Visigothic Kingdom through a period of intense internal fracture — he began his reign forced to share power with his predecessor's son Wamba, a co-regency arrangement he eventually dissolved after engineering heresy charges against his rival. The Emerita mint, modern Mérida, was one of the most active Visigothic gold-issuing centers, its output rooted in the city's deep Roman administrative infrastructure long after imperial authority had dissolved.
Pliego 703 places this emission among a well-documented Emerita sequence, though die-link studies across Egica's coinage reveal considerable variation in flan preparation at this mint specifically.