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Tremissis in the name of Honorius

Issuer Suebi Kingdom
Year 450
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Value 1 Tremissis
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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.
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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.

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