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Tremissis - Justinian I VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM, Carthagena
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 527-565 |
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| Weight | 1.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Justinian I facing right, rendered in the late antique style characteristic of early Byzantine coinage. The emperor's effigy displays a pearl diadem, with visible drapery at the shoulder and the upper edge of the cuirass. The portrait is executed in high relief typical of hammered tremisses of the Carthagena mint, with the imperial legend encircling the bust in Latin capitals. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Carthago Spartaria — modern Cartagena — served as the administrative capital of the Byzantine province of Spania, established after Justinian's forces landed on the Iberian peninsula around 552 AD in support of a Visigothic succession dispute. The province never extended much beyond a coastal strip, but it minted coin, which mattered politically. Tremisses from this mint are considerably scarcer than their Constantinopolitan counterparts and represent one of the westernmost expressions of Byzantine monetary authority in the sixth century.