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Tremissis - Leovigildo Cordoba
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 575-586 |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | +LEOVIGILDVSREX |
| Reverse description | Facing bust in the same stylized Visigothic manner as the obverse, presenting a schematic frontal effigy with beaded crown topped by a cross and a segmented pectoral collar, set within a beaded inner border. The surrounding peripheral legend reads +CORDOBABISOPTINVIT, referencing the mint city of Cordoba and commemorating Leovigild's conquest of the city. The field is flat and the design is rendered in the characteristically abstract, hieratic style of late sixth-century Visigothic gold coinage. The flan shows the irregular outline typical of hand-struck tremisses of this series. |
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Leovigild's monetary reform of the 570s broke decisively from the practice of striking coins in the name of the reigning Byzantine emperor — a convention Visigothic mints had maintained for decades as a gesture of nominal imperial deference. This tremissis, struck at Córdoba, belongs to that transition: Leovigild began placing his own name and image on the coinage, asserting an independent royal authority that no Visigothic king had so explicitly claimed before him. Córdoba was among his most strategically prized mints, recovered from the Byzantines during his southern campaigns in the 570s.