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Tremissis - Sisebut Labeclosa

Issuer Visigothic Kingdom
Year 612-621
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Reverse lettering + LABECLOSA I
Edge Plain
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Sisebut is one of the more historically legible Visigothic kings — a literate monarch who corresponded with Isidore of Seville and authored a hagiographic poem — but his coinage is valued for more mundane reasons: mint attribution. Labeclosa remains one of the less-resolved Visigothic mint sites, its precise location still debated among Iberian numismatists, which makes any solidly attributed piece from this series genuinely useful to researchers mapping the kingdom's monetary geography.

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