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Tremissis - Witerico Gerunda
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 603-610 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Stylized facing bust, mirroring the obverse in its schematic, heavily abstracted rendering, enclosed within a beaded border. The effigy displays the characteristic Visigothic degeneration of the late Roman imperial portrait tradition, with a frontal face reduced to summary punched or engraved elements. The surrounding legend reads * GERONDA IVST, identifying the mint city of Gerunda (modern Girona) and incorporating the standard IVST(us) epithet affirming royal legitimacy. The flat, linear execution is consistent with the workshop conventions of early seventh-century Visigothic gold coinage. |
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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.