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Tremissis in the name of Zeno Ravenna mint
| Issuer | Italy, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 480-491 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A plain Latin cross, boldly rendered, occupies the central field and is encircled by a laurel wreath tied at the base. The mint control mark appears in the exergue below the wreath. The composition is simple and emblematic, reflecting the Christogram-influenced iconography prevalent on late Roman and Ostrogothic tremisses of this period. |
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| Reverse lettering | COMOB (Translation: Constantinople.) |
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Odoacer, who deposed the last Western emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476, governed Italy as a client king nominally subordinate to the Eastern court at Constantinople. Striking gold in Zeno's name was a calculated act of legitimacy — Odoacer never claimed the purple himself, and these tremisses from Ravenna were the fiscal and diplomatic proof of that arrangement. Zeno, for his part, tolerated the fiction.
The Ravenna mint had served Western imperial coinage for decades before 476 and continued under Odoacer without meaningful interruption.