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Tremissis - Suintila Emerita
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 621-631 |
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| Currency | Tremissis |
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| Reverse description | Stylized facing bust of a figure, likely a mint personification or secondary royal effigy, rendered in the same schematic Visigothic style as the obverse. The design features a crowned or diademed head surrounded by a beaded border, with the legend +EMERITA PIVS distributed around the periphery identifying both the mint city of Emerita (modern Mérida) and the royal epithet PIVS. The execution is characteristic of early seventh-century Visigothic coinage, with angular, deeply struck letterforms and a boldly modeled but highly abstracted central device. |
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| Reverse lettering | +EMERITA PIVS |
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Suintila is one of the more consequential Visigothic kings numismatically ignored by casual collectors. He completed the expulsion of Byzantine forces from the Iberian Peninsula around 624–625, unifying the peninsula under Visigothic rule for the first time — a geopolitical shift that makes mint attributions like Emerita suddenly meaningful as fully sovereign rather than contested territory. Emerita Augusta, modern Mérida, had been a Byzantine-held enclave and was among the last to fall.
Pliego 393 places this issue firmly within the Emerita sequence, a mint with consistent output under Suintila across his decade of rule before his deposition by Sisenand in 631.