Tremissis - Witerico Emerita

Witerico seized the Visigothic throne in 603 by murdering his predecessor Liuva II, and his coins reflect the legitimizing anxieties of a usurper king — minted at Emerita (modern Mérida), one of the most important mint cities in Visigothic Hispania and the capital of the former Roman province of Lusitania. His reign ended as it began: he was assassinated at a banquet in 610, his body dragged through the streets of Toledo.