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Tremissis - Sisebuto Sagunto
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 612-621 |
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| Reference(s) | CNV#272, Pliego#252 |
| Obverse description | Frontal facing bust of King Sisebut, diademed and draped, set within a beaded inner circle. The king is depicted in the stylized Visigothic manner with a prominent beaded necklace and a cross pattee surmounting the crown. The bust is rendered in a schematic, hieratic style characteristic of late Visigothic gold coinage. The surrounding legend SISEBVTVS RE is distributed around the effigy in bold, angular Latin lettering within the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | SISEBVTVS RE |
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Sisebut is one of the more intellectually documented Visigothic kings — he corresponded with Isidore of Seville and composed a Latin poem on lunar eclipses — but his coinage is notable for a harder political reason: in 613 or 616 he issued a decree forcing the baptism of all Jews within his kingdom, the first such compulsory conversion edict by any European ruler. The Sagunto mint, operating under its Latinized name Saguntum, issued this tremissis within that charged administrative moment.