Tremissis - Witerico Gerunda

Obverse description	Stylized facing bust of King Witerico rendered in the degenerate late antique manner characteristic of Visigothic tremisses, set within a beaded border. The effigy is depicted frontally with a schematic diademed head surmounted by a cross, the facial features reduced to abstract forms typical of the period. The surrounding circular legend reads + VVITTERICVS RE, identifying the issuing monarch. The flat, highly conventionalized treatment of the portrait reflects the progressive artistic abstraction of Hispano-Visigothic coinage in the early seventh century.
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Additional information	Witerico seized the Visigothic throne by murdering his predecessor Liuva II in 603, and his seven-year reign was characterized by persistent military failure — most notably a disastrous campaign against the Byzantine enclaves in southern Hispania that achieved nothing. Tremisses struck in his name at Gerunda, the old Roman city now called Girona, are among the scarcer provincial issues of his reign, reflecting the city's modest but strategically positioned mint activity in the northeast of the peninsula. Witerico was himself killed at a banquet in 610, his body thrown into a ditch without royal burial.