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Tremissis - Recaredo I Caesaraugusta
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 586-601 |
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| Weight | 1.48 g |
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| Reverse description | Facing royal bust occupying the central field, rendered in the same schematic Visigothic style as the obverse, with a helmeted and diademed head surmounted by a cross, draped bust below, and a globus or orb held before the chest. The surrounding legend, distributed in segments across the field, records the mint signature of Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza) in abbreviated form. The execution is characteristic of the degraded Byzantine prototype adapted by Visigothic celators of the late sixth century. |
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| Mint | Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza) |
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Recaredo I's conversion from Arianism to Nicene Christianity at the Third Council of Toledo in 589 was among the most consequential religious-political shifts in early medieval Iberia, and the coinage issued from Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza) during his reign reflects a mint operating under a dramatically reorganized ecclesiastical and administrative order. The Visigothic tremissis from this mint is struck on a relatively broad, thin flan consistent with production norms inherited from late Roman imperial practice — a continuity the Visigoths deliberately maintained to ease monetary exchange with Byzantine-influenced territories.
Pliego 70 places this type within a tightly defined group attributable to the Caesaraugusta mint on the basis of die-link analysis and fabric.