Tremissis - Recaredo I Emerita

Recaredo I's conversion from Arianism to Nicene Christianity in 589 — formalized at the Third Council of Toledo — was one of the most politically consequential religious shifts in post-Roman Iberia, and coinage from his reign reflects the transitional minting apparatus he inherited from his father Leovigild. Emerita Augusta (Mérida) was among the most active Visigothic mints, its output benefiting from the city's residual Roman administrative infrastructure.

Pliego 115 places this emission within the earlier portion of the reign, before the mint's style stabilized into the more schematic forms of the seventh century.