Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Tremissis in the name of Honorius
| Issuer | Suebi Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Year | 450 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Tremissis |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Honorius facing right, rendered in the late antique barbarous style typical of Suebi imitative coinage. The effigy is surrounded by a circular Latin legend reading D N HONORIVS P F AVG, with lettering that may show some degeneration characteristic of barbarian imitations. The portrait, though stylized, retains the essential iconographic elements of the imperial prototype. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (450) |
| Additional information |
The Suebi established themselves in northwestern Iberia after crossing the Rhine with the Vandals and Alans on the last day of 406 AD, and by the mid-fifth century were producing their own gold coinage — formally in the name of the reigning Western emperor, but functionally as an assertion of independent fiscal authority. Striking in the name of Honorius well after his death in 423 makes this piece a retrograde issue, using a long-dead emperor's titulature as a convenient fiction of legitimacy rather than any genuine imperial alignment.