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Tremissis - Gundemaro Elvora
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 609-612 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Facing bust rendered in the same highly stylized, abstract manner as the obverse, characteristic of the Visigothic tremissis series, likely representing a standing or enthroned figure. The design is encircled by a Latin legend distributed around the flan, identifying the mint official and place of issue. The field shows the schematic treatment of drapery and facial features typical of seventh-century Iberian hammered gold coinage. A cross or decorative element may appear in the lower field. The reverse legend reads IVSTVS ELVORA, naming the monetarius Iustus and the mint of Elvora (modern Évora, in present-day Portugal). |
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| Mint | Elvora (Évora) |
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Gundemaro reigned just three years before his death in 612, making his coinage among the scarcest of all Visigothic issues by simple duration. The Elvora mint — identified with modern Talavera de la Reina or, in some scholarship, with Évora in Portugal, a attribution still not fully resolved — produced tremisses under several kings, but Gundemaro's output there is exceptionally limited in surviving numbers.
His reign was consumed largely by military campaigning against the Basques and by internal ecclesiastical politics, including the convening of a Toledo council in 610 that formally elevated Toledo's primacy over all Hispanian sees.