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Tremissis - Sisebuto Eminio
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 612-621 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis |
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| Obverse description | Schematic front-facing royal bust rendered in the debased Visigothic style, depicted with a broad, flat face and striated hair or crown framing the head. Below the bust appears a shield-shaped device quartered into four sections, each containing pellets, characteristic of Visigothic tremissis iconography. The surrounding circular Latin legend reads + SISIBVTVS REX, with a cross pattee serving as the legend divider. The coin is struck on an irregular flan typical of hammered Visigothic gold coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sisebut ruled the Visigothic Kingdom from 612 to 621 and is one of the more historically legible Visigothic kings — a military commander who pushed Byzantine forces out of their remaining Iberian footholds, and also, unusually, an author. His Latin poem on lunar eclipses survives. The Eminio mint operated in what is now Coimbra, a city that would pass through Visigothic, Moorish, and eventually Portuguese hands over the following centuries.
CNV#260 / Pliego#289 places this emission within a well-documented sequence, though Visigothic tremisses of any mint outside Toledo tend to appear in smaller numbers at auction.