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Tremissis LATINA EMERI MVNITA
| Issuer | Suebi Kingdom |
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| Year | 570-580 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Suebi Kingdom of Iberia was absorbed into the Visigothic realm under Leovigild around 585, making coinage from the decade immediately preceding that conquest among the last expressions of an independent Suebic monetary administration. LATINA EMERI MVNITA identifies this piece as struck at Mérida — Emerita Augusta — then a significant mint city operating under Suebic control before Leovigild's campaign swept through Gallaecia and Lusitania.
Suebic tremisses of this period closely imitate late Roman and Byzantine weight standards rather than asserting a native tradition, a practical necessity for a kingdom conducting trade across a peninsula of competing authorities.