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Tremissis - Leovigildo Porto
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 575-586 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | + LEOVIGILDVS RE |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Leovigild's monetary program was one of the most deliberate acts of political consolidation in post-Roman Iberia. Prior Visigothic tremisses had slavishly imitated late Roman and Byzantine prototypes — a tacit admission of dependence on imperial legitimacy. Leovigild broke from that practice, issuing coinage in his own name and titulature, a claim to independent sovereignty backed by his military campaigns that effectively unified most of the peninsula under Visigothic rule by the 580s.
The Porto mint attribution for CNV#44 / Pliego#60 places production in the northwest, a region Leovigild wrested from the Suebi kingdom in 585.