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Tremissis - Tulga Toleto
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 639-642 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Facing bust of a schematized royal or ecclesiastical figure, rendered in the characteristic flat, abstract style of Visigothic tremisses struck at Toledo. The effigy displays a crowned head with pellet ornaments and a draped bust, with cross motifs visible in the surrounding field. The circular legend + TOLETO PIVS surrounds the central device, referencing the mint city of Toledo and the epithet PIVS attributed to the king. The design is enclosed by a beaded border consistent with hammered gold coinage of the period. |
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Tulga came to the Visigothic throne as a teenager following the death of his father Chintila, and his reign lasted barely three years before Chindasuinth — then in his seventies — led a rebellion, deposed him, and had him tonsured and confined to a monastery. Toledo, the royal mint city named in this coin's legend, was the administrative and ecclesiastical center the Visigoths had held since displacing the Romans, and coins struck there carried particular political weight. Tremisses of Tulga are genuinely scarce; his abbreviated reign and the subsequent damnatio of his line kept mintage low.