Tremissis - Recaredo I Contempo

Recaredo I's conversion from Arianism to Nicene Christianity at the Third Council of Toledo in 589 was one of the most consequential religious-political acts of early medieval Iberia, and the coinage issued across his reign reflects the administrative consolidation that followed. The Visigothic tremissis was directly modeled on late Roman imperial gold — a deliberate claim to Roman continuity by a dynasty that needed the Church's legitimacy as much as it needed military control.

Pliego 136 places this emission among the better-documented Recaredo types, though attribution of individual Visigothic tremisses to specific mints remains contested across much of the corpus.